As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms.

My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.

I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.