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.

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.

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

My Obama is getting pretty good ... I think I'll vote for whoever makes my portrayal easier. It takes time to put together a comic impression. It takes time to recognize the tics. Right now, for instance, I could do a dead- on Paul Ryan and people wouldn't recognize it. Personalities take a while to sin.

I never read the tabloids.

You know ladies and gentlemen, a long time ago , there were lots of people, but that was a long time ago