Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it.

Now you can't even carry a nail clipper on a plane. Are they afraid you're going to go..."All right! Give me the plane or the b*tch loses her cuticle." ?

You could talk about same-sex marriage, but people who have been married (say) 'It's the same sex all the time.'