When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

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

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

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

A collison is what happens when two motorists go after the same pedestrian.

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