Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.
When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.
Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.
You know when you make popcorn there are always those fluffy white kernels that are fun and good to eat but there are also always those burnt, black kernels that don’t pop. You know why they don’t pop? Because they have integrity.
In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.
What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets.
They are not testing comics for drugs. If our job is dependent on that, there would be three working comics in the country, and two of them would have puppets.
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.
You have to take risks.
It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.