I Didn't Need The Elf Outfit To

Laughter Gives Us Distance. It Allows Us To Step Back From An Event, Deal With It And Then Move On.

You Shouldn't Get Too Close To The Truth, Because Then Maybe You Stop Being Funny.

It Was A Decision To Work Clean. I Just Prefer To Work That Way. I Have No Problem With Comedians Who Don't Work That Way. There Was A Temptation In The Early '70s To Reconsider. I Decided Against It.

The First Time I Got Up In Front Of An Audience Was Terror, Abject Terror, Which Continued For Another Four Or Five Years. There Still Is, A Little Bit.

I Gave Up Accounting. I Went In For About Six Months Writing Ad Copy. I Was Fired From That, And Then Another Guy And I Did A Kind Of Poor Man's Bob And Ray Kind Of Syndicated Radio Show. Then I Decided To Stick It Out And See What Happened. I'd Give It A Year, A Year Became Two Years, And Then Two Years Became Three Years, And Then Along Came The Record Album.