I don’t think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

At CBS, I’m in your house. I’m mindful of that. When I do standup, you’re in my home and I can say what I want to.

You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

No small part of the club's audience consisted of would-be comics, as well as the leading comics of the day. In fact, there were so many gagsters around that it was difficult to know who was part of the act and who was just sitting in.