The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed - only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be - then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.

Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.

The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed - only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be - then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

Part of the kick of making people laugh was doing something different. We were a rare breed - spotting one of us was like pinning a space alien, or abdominal snowman. There were maybe a hundred stand-ups in the whole country when I was doing it.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.