Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created.

A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.

I give [Barack Obama] a 10 [on a scale of 1 to 10] because he's not God, and he inherited a couple of wars, and a financial mess.I want to see him curse somebody out on TV. You can't finesse a bull. He's gotta throw down. He's in the shark tank.

Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.

Stand-up and comedy is the place where we are supposed to be able to make fun of all of the world's ills.

My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work.