The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

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

I think Jews tend to hold me in fairly high regard.

Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.

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.

I love children. I'm embarrassingly baby-crazy.

They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.