New York Stat agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed three decades ago by inmates swept up in the bloody 1971 revolt at Attica prison. The settlement will be paid in the form of chocolate bars and packs of Newports that can be picked up in the commissary.

Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.

Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves.

My name has zero value.