Comedy, not screaming at someone, can make someone lift their legs higher. There is a way to do a push-up and a sit-up, and it doesn't have to be so complicated. Everyone is putting a difficult twist to it and making you do way too much.

I don't talk about my personal life, and I don't talk about death.

I sort of think of myself as part priest, part clown.

Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.

Everyone's under pressure and you just have to learn how to deal with it. And I deal with it through prayer and staying busy.

When I was younger, I ate nothing but fried food. Everything was fried, from oysters to chicken to potatoes to vegetables. When you die in New Orleans, they deep fry you before they put you in the coffin. When we baptize children in New Orleans, we baptize them with a bordelaise sauce; we don't use water.

If your oxygen mask drops down, it's time to take a breather!