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.

I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.

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

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

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 mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

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