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

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

I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

It's cheaper to keep her.

You look at the world and see how scary it can be sometimes and still try to deal with the fear. Comedy can deal with the fear and still not paralyze you or tell you that it's going away. You say, OK, you got certain choices here, you can laugh at them and then once you've laughed at them and you have expunged the demon, now you can deal with them. That's what I do when I do my act.

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

Men may have wars, but women have their period. Men go off and kill each other, but women say nasty things, which is even better.