Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'

I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.

Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, Why is that person staring at me?

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

Funny is funny is funny.

Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright. My own private theory is that stammerers have so many ideas swirling around their brains at once that they can't get them all out, though I haven't found any scientific evidence to back that up.