In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.
Sarah SilvermanComedy can't live within my second-guesses, so I started doing new material. Sometimes I bombed. But you have to be willing to if you want to move forward and stay vital. It's like people who take pride in not having a computer. I'm all, "Great, don't learn new things! Your brain is full!"
Sarah Silverman