It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

I think that comedy is a good defense for a child. Because you know childhood is a nightmare as it is. And so why not use comedy and being funny as a defense to get through your life as opposed to drugs, alcohol and good looks? Because those things are dangerous when your young.

When people heckle me, I have the microphone. And the press has the microphone.

I want a man in my life, not in my house.

Have four things going. I have stand-up comedy, two television shows and I'm working on a play. I like to work, and I fear that something could fall through. You know what they say: 'The show must go off.

You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we're fundits! We're not pundits!

I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.