You can't wait forever for an audience to get the joke, but you should give them at least two seconds to join in before you go on to the next one.

This whole urban rap thing needs to be pulled back some. The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about the ghetto except getting out of one.

Black people drink lots of beer. However, you won't see us skiing down a mountain for one, or see us diving for Frisbees on concrete for one.

Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.

Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.

Don't try to give a funny opinion; give your opinion in a way that will be funny.

Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.

If I'm crisp and economical in my delivery, have smooth transitions, movement and animation, and flights of fancy, that would get me an A.

When I saw a sign on the freeway that said, "Los Angeles 445 miles," I said to myself, "I've got to get out of this lane."

I advise treating the studio audience like a nightclub audience because that's the reason you're doing television - to get them to come see you in a nightclub.

Obviously the audience has veto power signified by whether they laugh or not, but you-not them-retain the ultimate power to decide what they're going to get the opportunity to laugh at.

He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.

The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain.

Are You Driving With Your Eyes Open? Or Are You like Using The Force?

Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

I do think of emotions as being on a circular path, so you can feel terrible and terrible and terrible, and then all of a sudden it becomes quite funny.

Sometimes God's refusals are His mercies.

The Beatles never get old.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.

In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light