I feel more comfortable in comedy.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Doormen are kind of invisible, people don't know their names. They just say, Thank you, or Good morning. I'd never thought about doormen before. They're a vanishing breed. More electronic doors are being introduced.