Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

When you're 18, you're just so busy being scared and having fun - a crazy mixture - that you never thought of dying.

I've never been able to tell jokes. In the beginning of my career I did impressions and jokes like any other comedian, but I was never very successful because I did it poorly. So I started to talk to the audience and started talking about the atmosphere around me and started to become angry, not in a mean-spirited way, but in a fun way - and my attitude developed from there.

Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.