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I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they're either not terribly intelligent or they're not doing something well.

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.

Age, style, where you come from, where you were born, it's different every time, which, to me, is refreshing because it says that there isn't any one thing, one formula or kind of character that makes a great comedian. Everybody has had a different approach.

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.