I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

I think ABC sort of hoped I would be really like Carol Burnett. I mean literally, I think.

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

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

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

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.