I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics.

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.

When you're a kid, you always feel you have this weird kindred-spirit thing with other Jews, until you get older and you realize it's just middle-class bourgeois Jews that sort of fit a template that your family fits into one way or another.

I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me.

Because we're comics and we pass each other on campus, we know of each other, and a lot of the time there's a mutual respect there.

It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.

When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.