If you're from New York and you're Catholic, you're still Jewish. If you're from Butte Montana and you're Jewish, you're still goyisch. The Air Force is Jewish, the Marine Corps dangerous goyisch. Rye Bread is Jewish, instant potatoes, scary goyisch. Eddie Cantor is goyisch, George Jessel is goyisch-Coleman Hawkins is Jewish.

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

I want to perform an unnatural act.

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd.

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.

I'm sure that half the buzz from smoking grass was the fact that it was so illegal.