My father wasn't much for show business. He was an insurance man - very well-liked, very warm. He had a lot of friends.

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.

I've never walked off stage and said, I shouldn't have done that. Because when you do what I do, you're like a fighter. You throw the right hand and say, That's what got me to this dance. You can't have doubt. If you have doubt, there's no show.

Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.

I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.