My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'