The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.
I think Janeane Garofalo is incredibly funny, and I love Dennis Miller.
T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.
I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff Goldblum, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. People I worked with there saw a comedian in me. I'm still most at home in comedy.
Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.
On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
Comedy was all I ever wanted.
The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.
It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.