When You're Eight Years Old, Nothing Is

My Only Challenge Was To Tell My Truth, Man... Figure Out What I Had To Say. These Days, It's Not Enough To Boost That Roomful Of Strangers. The Young Comic Spends All Their Time Trying To Sound Different From The Million Other Jokesters Grabbing For The Mic.

I Would Become A Priest Or A Rabbi Or A Monk Or Whatever The Hell Was Necessary To Perform Miracles Such As Taking Money From Someone Else's Pocket And Putting It Into Mine, Still Remaining Within The Confines Of The Law.

I Want To Perform An Unnatural Act.

Part Of The Kick Of Making People Laugh Was Doing Something Different. We Were A Rare Breed - Spotting One Of Us Was Like Pinning A Space Alien, Or Abdominal Snowman. There Were Maybe A Hundred Stand-ups In The Whole Country When I Was Doing It.

Sex And Obscenity Are Not Synonymous.