There is also a kind of mean-spiritedness with LA comics.

There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really.

I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic.

I'm very vocal about my belief that all religion is garbage. Most of my friends are religious or at least spiritual. These are people I like and I know are intelligent. It's this thing that I carry around. I know I'd be a better person if I was fairer, but it's at the core of who I am and what I believe.

Then I will tape the sets and even though I`m not very successful sometimes I will try to cut out the fat and put the jokes closer together.

I think pornography is the only art form where you can be videotaped on a shaky handy cam sucking off a horse and be considered a star.

I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.