Steven Wright

United States
Born on 6 Dec 1955
Comedian

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My house is on the median strip of a highway. You don't really notice, except I have to leave the driveway doing 60 MPH.
I have a map of the United States . . . actual size.
It says, “Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile”
I spent last summer folding it.
A beautiful woman moved in next door.
So I went over and returned a cup of sugar.
'You didn't borrow this.'
'I will.'
It's a good thing we have gravity
or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there.
Hunters would be all confused.
Every once in a while I like to stick my head out the window,
look up at the sky and smile . . .
for a satellite picture.
Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you.
Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.

I have the world's largest collection of seashells.
I keep it on all the beaches of the world. . . .
Perhaps you've seen it.
The judge asked, 'What do you plead?'
I said, 'Insanity, your honor.
Who in their right mind would park in the passing lane?'
My friend Sally is a nudist.
I went to her house.
The closets have no doors.
The walls are covered with see-through wallpaper.
I was born by Caesarian section . . . but not so you'd notice.
It's just that when I leave a house, I go out through the window.
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