The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad's life.

Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.

I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.