Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.
I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.
On 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' it takes almost a year to get 10 shows written. It always reminds me of my old yeshiva days, where you used to sit over a piece of Talmud and analyze everything that was going on.
I don't believe any particular ethnic group is smarter than any other group.
The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.
In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.
The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You're always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they're just, you know, an imbecile.
The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with an audience and there's not a laugh.
