The Comedy Store - all three rooms were filled with 800 people in the room. And during that time, all these guys and some women, but mostly guys who weren't funny were doing stand up for a living; they weren't accountants, they were making $30-$50 grand a year on the road, or more.

When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

I think comedy is on an organic upsurge right now because when I started, it was 1978 at The Comedy Store and Letterman had just stopped emceeing his morning show.

What I've learned about comedy people is that they're defined by the harshest level they've been to, their personal Auschwitz.

What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating.

Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.

In the creative sense, I'm looking forward to collaborating with people I have mutual respect for to create some really good work.