I think things evolve into jokes. I don't generally write them down as jokes. I talk them out.

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.

There was a period when I was getting a lot of banana bread, because I mentioned someone cooked me banana bread, and then everyone cooked me baked stuff, and I would take it to the hotel, and it was making me fat.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

I remember seeing Richard Pryor's first movie; it was a midnight movie when I was in high school. I must have been about fifteen. It was one of the most cathartic experiences of my life. I'd never laughed that much.

I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.