Quote of the Day: Cellmates

by: Rosi Efthim

Thu Oct 27, 2011 at 07:37:27 PM EDT

With his time on stage last night, Joey told the audience about his day watching lefty legal lion Bennet Zurofsky poke holes in the State of New Jersey's rationale for harassing the Trenton occupiers. Took a little work for Joey to convince an audience that knows him from comedy that he went to law school a few years ago and now sits on ACLU-NJ's Board.

Then Randy Credico took the stage and and talked about his cellmate that night, Princeton professor Dr. Cornel West. And that brings me to today's Quote of the Day, vintage Credico:

I was in a cell for 4 hours with Cornel West. I would gladly be arrested another hundred times to have that chance again. Know what it's like to be locked in a cell for 4 hours with Cornel West? It's like getting the chance to hang out with Socrates. With Galileo.

New York Times covered the Credico benefit today.