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

I developed several comedy phone calls.

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

I was an actor before becoming 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.

My whole act is confession.

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.