In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.

Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset?

I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.

Our black president can't say that he's for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me.