The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

Nothing is more vintage than dying of Rubella.

I have a generally liberal audience, but they will applaud when I nail a liberal lion.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

It's official. Highway patrolmen are not susceptible to the Jedi Mind Trick.

I love being onstage, I love the relationship with the audience.