If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."

I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

Let's be honest, this is a consumer based economy in America. That's all we manufacture here is need and appetite. We are the world's mouth. They make things in other countries, and they're like, 'Send it to America; they'll eat it.'

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.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

I’m glad to be part of the war on sadness. I’m a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.