What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets.

I feel bad for people who have never been addicted to anything, because they're the real losers. You want to know why? Because they don't know what it's like to really want something - and then get it again and again and again.

As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.

Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment. Going up with an idea and fleshing it out over time on stage and in front of people until it becomes a full bit.

My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.