Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

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.

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

My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.

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

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.

A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!