Conformity is an obsession with me.
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Tom Gammill and Max Pross
Tom Gammill (born May 19, 1957) and Max Pross (born March 22, 1957) are an American comedy writing team. Together they have written episodes for such successful shows as Seinfeld, The Critic, The Wonder Years, It's Garry Shandling's Show, and Monk. They have also worked as producers on The Simpsons and Futurama. 2Family Max Pross is married to Mira Velimirovic and has two children: Milena and Isaac. Tom Gammill is married to Sandy Gillis and has two children: Henry Gammill (born January 15, 1990) and Alice Gammill (born September 20, 1991). 2Early career Gammill was born in Darien, Connecticut. He contributed cartoons to Kids, a magazine "by kids for kids" published in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and then in New York City, from 1970 to 1975 under the co-editorship of Jenette Kahn (later president and editor-in-chief of MAD Magazine and DC Comics). Pross was born in Boston. He met Gammill at Harvard University, and they started to write comedy sketches together for Saturday Night Live in 1979. In 1981 they co-wrote Steve Martin's fourth NBC special "Steve Martin's Best Show Ever" with such notable comedy writers as Eric Idle, Dan Aykroyd, and Lorne Michael
Well, Poppie's a little sloppy.
This woman is bending my mind into a pretzel!
I don't get it. Not allowed to ask a Chinese person where the Chinese restaurant is! I mean, aren't we all getting a little too sensitive? I mean, someone asks me which way's Israel, I don't fly off the handle.
You know what would make a great coffee table book? A coffee table book about coffee tables! Get it?
Hey believe me, baldness will catch on. When the aliens come, who do you think they're gonna relate to? Who do you think is going to be the first ones getting a tour of the ship?
I-I-I'm not crazy about used clothes. I mean they call it vintage, you know to take your mind off of what it really is ‘nasty wear.’ Oh it's clean you know people wear underwear, ya well they don't wear iron underwear and that's what it's gonna take to get me in those clothes. I mean I'll move into…
Personal distance is a very important thing. There's a new personal distance, ATM distance. When someone's using an ATM, you wanna be about six feet back, don't you? Because people a little edgy around that ATM, don't they? They got their money out, their eyes are darting all around. The other place…
You were making out during Schindler's List?
Kramer: You’re becoming one of the glitterati. George: What’s that? Kramer: People who glitter.
Good, Merry Christmas, George. And bring me back some of those cigars in the cedar boxes, you know the ones with the fancy rings? I love those fancy rings. They kind of distract you while you're smoking. The red and yellow are nice. It looks good against the brown of the cigar. The Maduro, I like…
Well, you really got bald there, didn't you?
Just because you're a communist, does that mean you can't wear anything nice? You look like Trotsky. It's gorgeous. Fine, you want to be a communist, be a communist. Can't you at least look like a successful communist?
In four years of high school I would never race anyone again. Not even to the end of the block to catch a bus. And so the legend grew. Everyone wanted me to race. They begged me. The track coach called my parents. Pleading. Telling them it was a sin to waste my God-given talent. But I answered him…
You know, selling bras exclusively to women, we're really only utilizing fifty percent of the market.
Hey George, what do you like better? The ‘bro’ or the ‘mansiere’?
I lived with him for forty years, I never saw him trying on my underwear. As soon as he leaves the house, he turns into J. Edgar Hoover!