Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

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

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

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.

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

Every language has its own music.