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he also like wrote the movie 'one soldier', which is a great movie

he was also on some hbo special way way way back in the day

Is anybody else familiar with the quote: "Black holes are where God divided by zero." I've seen that one attributed to Steven Wright but I've never had any real evidence that he ever said it.

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[edit] Twitter

There's a link to Steven Wright's Twitter account at the bottom of this article. Can anyone confirm that it's actually by him and not some fan? His website and MySpace profiles don't mention Twitter. Bartszyszka 21:31, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cartoon

Anyone know the name of the cartoon he is in where he is talking to a psycologist. It was recently referred to on an eposide of Family Guy.--The Sess 00:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

It was a cartoon called Dr. Katz. -unknownsoldier

[edit] Steven Wright

I like his observation that everything is within walking distance if you have the time.

I'm not entirely sure that all of the quotes on this list, even after the article mentions lists of quotes incorrectly credited to Steven, are actually Steven quotes. I recognize a lot of them, which gives the list some credit, but a few (particularly the "Someone's making a penny" one) seem slightly out of his style. Is there any solid verification of these?

"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it" is cited as one of his jokes. I found this page via The Comedian's Comedian which also list Chic Murray. The Chic Murray article contains a link: *A collection of some of his jokes The first of Chic's joke on that page is: "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it".

I've heard him say the "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it" line, I'm sure...one of his earlier shows, probably. But as the page says, a lot of stuff is misattributed to him...it happens to people who are leaders in a specific style...Weird Al has literally thousands of parodies attributed to him, many of them highly offensive and not the sort of stuff he wants his fanbase to be listening to and thinking it's his. Check out http://www.wright-house.com/steven-wright/jokes.html because it has a number of jokes that have been mentioned online and the author's attempted to find the true sources for them. HTH SmUX 14:23, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Authenticity of Jokes

Both of the ones you bring up ("penny" and "small world") are indeed his jokes, he uses them on his standup album. Nevertheless, there are some dubious ones on there that I don't recognize from anywhere else. Namely,

"When the guy who made the first drawing board got it wrong, what did he go back to?" "I tried sniffing Coke once, but ice cubes went up my nose." "Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home."

Can anybody corroborate that these were actually said by him?

I can't corroborate those particular lines, but I can confirm that some of the lines given aren't his. For example, I just deleted a line that started "The brain is a wonderful organ," which (elsewhere on the web) is universally attributed to Robert Frost. Since Frost is not one of the people who quotations are often arbitrarily assigned to (like Twain or Wright), and since the line isn't Wright's style at all, I deleted it. I suspect that many of the other one-liners listed are not Wright's either. Elysdir 20:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

The one about Coke is by Steven as it was on his album. HughBatey4 15:31, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quotes List

Should we move the magority Steve's quotes to his WikiQuotes? Usually, you leave three quotes and provide a link to his wikiquote page? --Befuddled Steve 21:44, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Joke theft / plagiarism?

Charlie Prose also tells a joke about a person discussing ethnicities/backgrounds where the two in question are cowboys and Jews. The punchline is "Bronco Goldberg" instead of "Bucky Goldstein", but it's obviously the same joke. Does anyone know who "borrowed" from whom? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 22:35, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wednesday April 24th?

April 24th was a tuesday.

did When The Leaves Blow Away premiere on Comedy Central Wednesday the 25th or tuesday the 24th? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.189.34.249 (talk) 16:22, 25 April 2007 (UTC).

It was aired a day after it came out on DVD, so that might help people search for info SmUX 14:25, 1 August 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Thursday December 6th 2007

http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071206/NEWS02/712060353/1003/NEWS02 Steven Wright found in the woods... age matches with this steven wright. Should this get added to the page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.185.104.153 (talk) 01:43, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Born in New York?

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800062500/bio —Preceding unsigned comment added by Craigboy (talk • contribs) 07:36, 4 January 2008 (UTC)