When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.
I didn't ever feel close to my real family. I didn't feel validated; I never felt right because I was always wrong.
Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.
I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.
There's a thin line between narcissism, even if it's a healthy narcissism, and entertainment.
My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.
