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

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?

Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.

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

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

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.