Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?

I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've developed that Jewish feel to my act from my surroundings and my family.

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

You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.

When you do see me, you'll get the idea from when you see me that it's all off the top of my head. A lot of it is a beginning, middle and the end. But it's different every night. I have a lot of jokes in my back pocket I've said over the years.

I've never had a writer, and I'm proud of that. Everything I've per­formed has been from my own head.

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