I do love the idea of ritual.

I really think everything is fair game.

I'm doing stuff on Kaballah and Scientology and a little bit more racial stuff, for good measure.

I don't like people whose job it isn't to be funny, to tell me what is and isn't funny.

Jews are the most liberal, scrappy, civil-rightsy people there are.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.