In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.

I have lows, you know, everybody does ... but I kind of know how to handle it. I like to let myself wallow in it. I enforce it with terribly sad music, and it kind of pushes me through to the other side eventually, and I always know it's going to pass.

The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.

A bull in just about any shop is gonna be a mess.

I learned that people in wheelchairs are allowed to have marathons … which, to me, seems like cheating, but what are you gonna say?

If you quit being cunty, the whole world will stop being against you.

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.