I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

There's a lot of cynicism. Let's really enjoy Christmas, with all that's going on in the world.

I don't want to find the secret. I'm afraid all the joy will go out of it if I find the secret.

Every new routine I have ever written and performed probably occurred extemporaneously. Then after you have fleshed it out and tried it out in front of a number of audiences and it works, you put it down on paper.

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.