Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.

I called a detox center - just to see how much it would cost: $13,000 for three weeks! My friends, if you can come up with thirteen grand, you don't have a problem yet.

John Goodman isn't fat. He's in a category beyond fat. What does one call it? Whalelike.

My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!

Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.