Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.

I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.

I kind of do it in my head, then I'll try pieces of it on stage and if it looks promising, I'll put it together.

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

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

Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.

Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is.