You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.

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.

Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.

I've done more than I thought I was ever going to do. I've had a very long and very satisfying career.

But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh

This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.