When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.

Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surface. His inaugural speech was like being present at the death of language.

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.