To me, being funny is more important than making a point, but I don't know. Most politicians are so interested in making points that they don't ... I'd rather be funny myself, and I'd rather listen to somebody with a little sense of humor.

And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will.

You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.