The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You're always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they're just, you know, an imbecile.
On 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' it takes almost a year to get 10 shows written. It always reminds me of my old yeshiva days, where you used to sit over a piece of Talmud and analyze everything that was going on.
Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.
My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.
The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.
My influences were Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce.
