Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.