I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.
I'm more of a people pleaser.
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.
I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
I'm a real people-pleaser.
I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.
I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
