Late Night Comedy Quotes

“But only a month after interviewing Madonna on his show, Arsenio was still seething, and publicly lashed out at the Material Girl, admitting, I could've crushed this girl’s world. And I could have done it. I’m a stand-up comic. I deal with hecklers for a living. I make people cry and run out of a club after heckling me. I know I can go off. I’m from the clubs, I’m from the smoke and the dope. I’m from the g-h-e-t-t-o.”
― Arsenio Hall

“As typical with his celebrity feuds, Arsenio fired the first shot, when, in 1989, Rosanne Barr published her autobiography, Roseanne: My Life As a Woman. ‘A lot of people will see her face on this book and be mad when they find out there ain’t no recipes inside,’ Arsenio had joked on the show. ‘It’s not a cookbook.
A Pocketful of Miracle Whip should be the title of her next book.
Her book says that her father was a slob. That’s what interests me. When you look at Roseanne, you would never know, huh?”
― Arsenio Hall, Arsenio: A Memoir