The first time I watched [Keith] Olbermann, his opening monologue, I completely changed the way I approached my radio show.

If it's going to really make them happy for me to do it, I'll do Walken. I've got no problem with it at all.

I've been doing stand-up 29 years; there is no other career when you're finding your stride 30 years into it.

I was the youngest kid on my street, the youngest comic in the clubs. I always felt like I was playing catch-up. I was very angry.

I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling rise.

You remember from watching the show, there are no "jokes." That's why if you see people on Twitter accusing me of being a "joke thief," I just tell them to come to one of my shows.

There is a ceiling to it and there's a stigma. Billy Crystal as brilliant as he is, he's never going to be thought of as a contemporary like Alan Arkin.