When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.