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My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a punch line.

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.

I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.