I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
People who become comedians… come from pain, come from conflict.
I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.
Funny is when you're serious.
And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.
You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.