It's 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler. Can I play? Let's see. Mother Teresa had a mustache. Hitler had a mustache. Mother Teresa is Hitler!

Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.

I do not make jokes about Sarah Palin simply because I could not live in this world if I believed she was a real person.

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?

A lot of the times I'm looking at something that I discover is part of a larger framework and not just a couple jokes. I see that it's a set, a story that I'll be telling. Sometimes I get lost in that.