Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

Birds know, better than humans, not to spoil the nest.

To me, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

People seem to get caught up in jargon like they get caught up in ashrams and power structures and they never become free. They become masters of jargon and power structures.

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

Free nations generally look for ways to deal with dictators amicably.

And we spend the rest of the evening getting very pissed and eating ice cream, as we always do when something good or bad happens to either one of us.

It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world.