I think if you look back at all those great comedies on television in the past, it's all lovable losers that gathered together - 'Taxi' and 'Cheers,' 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends.' Read Summary
When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me. Read Summary
Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner. Read Summary
I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part. Read Summary
Friends applaud, the comedy is over. Read Summary
I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it. Read Summary
The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own. Read Summary
To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me. Read Summary
The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh. Read Summary
Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick. Read Summary
My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends. Read Summary
It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks. Read Summary
But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them. Read Summary
The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage. Read Summary
So many times I've done a CD, and then the week after I record it, I've got this new tagline that's killer. And it makes the whole bit better. It happens all the time. But that's just the process of comedy. Read Summary
I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig. Read Summary
When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago. Read Summary
I never want to compromise my act just to get a laugh. Read Summary
Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title. Read Summary
I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking. Read Summary