It's important to remember that life is a joke and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.

Having done stand-up on television and in stand-up specials for like Comedy Central, you learn quickly that for that type of performance you're playing to the camera.

If you’re comparing the badness of two words and you won’t even say one of them [the n-word], that’s the worse word.

In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.

I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.

If I was at the Comedy Cellar at midnight you yelled at the back of the room. But you, for television, play it to the camera because yes you're communicating to the people at home using the studio audience that's right in front of you as a guide for that.

Excuse me: I am homeless. I am gay. I have AIDS. I'm new in town.