Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

You can’t make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

Everybody's funny in different ways.

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

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.

That’s the beauty of being a comedian: it’s the one job you’re allowed to do that. We’re lucky. We’re really lucky.