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

I think everyone probably starts out sounding like someone else, but gradually you develop your own sound.

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though youre poking fun at someone or something, theres still an affection for it.

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have it!'

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.

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