To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.
Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.
I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.
The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.
You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.