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Life Without Mort Downey

"Get out of here."

"No, it's true. He was interviewing some guy who spent $50,000 on phone sex. Mort called him a pervert, and I just lost it. It shot right out of my nose."

"Really? That's [past tense verb] up."

"Hey, Mort was the kind of guy who could make you do that. You think Bill Cosby ever forced me to do that? Cosby can't even hold Mort's [the same part of the body mentioned before]."

"You got that right. That's why I can't figure why he was canned."

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"I mean, if you're going to can someone it should be that newsguy who thinks he knows it all. Ted what's-his-name?

"Danson. The guy on that ABC show."

"Yeah, Mr. Big Shot Snob. Could you believe that guy. He talks to Russian guys on his show like they were best buddies."

"You know what Mort would do to those commie jerks? Blow them right out of the [same gerundive as before] water. Mort? he's just one of the greatest Americans around."

"Amen."

"Now he's gone. There's no justice in this world. It's the corporate big-lapel guys who run this country. Mort's just another victim."

"Yeah, just another victim. That's exactly what's going to happen to Pete Rose."

"What's happening to this country?"

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