When I was a kid, you ate, and you drank, and you passed out and nobody woke you up and said, 'Let's go shopping.

The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine.

In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

In New York, f*** isn't even a word. It's a comma.

Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.

I've been very lucky. There are guys I know who are really terrific in this business of stand-up who have not gotten the recognition they deserve. And it's nice, if you've put in the time, to achieve that recognition.

I hammer on a theme until I'm tired of it and the audience is tired of it.