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.

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

Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.

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

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to kind of navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.