I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.
I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.
For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.
The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.
Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.
Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.
Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.
I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.
Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.
It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.
Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.
Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
The next evolutionary step is into the screen.
I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
Hopefully standup will become special again.
When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.
When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.
There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity.
Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?
The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.
