Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, “They’ll be another one floating by any minute now.”

I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like its crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like its laughing. Nowadays, we would say, How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.

The 'Phoenix Sun' did a list of the unsexiest men in the world, and I made it to number one. I beat out Bin Laden. He's a terrorist, hasn't bathed in months. I beat him out. To me it was a great honor.

Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.

When you watch Robin Williams, you can see a lot of Jonathan Winters. Robin is the first one to admit that; he worshiped Jonathan Winters.