I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

Laughter destroys any divisions between people.

You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.

My hovercraft is full of eels.

I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit hard-edged, isn't it?' And I'd say, 'Let's just try it and see how the audience reacts. If they don't like it, let's cut it out.' And the audience roared with laughter, so I learned you could do this harder humor and people loved it.