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.

If I only ran when nothing hurt, I would never run.

You know, sometimes you can't just take an armadillo, put it in the barn, light it on fire and expect it to make licorice.

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

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 never read the tabloids.

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