I’ve always read the papers but didn’t feel I knew enough in the past. But doing the research and looking at newspapers and online websites gives you a 360-degree view of the news.

I mean, the number one goal is to make people laugh, that’s definitely the first aim; but aside from that, when we discuss which topics to talk about, the second goal is to try and make a point about it."

People like to be moved, that’s why they’re here listening to you instead of sitting at home with the Shipping Forecast."

There is almost no topic that can’t benefit from being talked about in a humorous way.

I always wondered, like, you know how you go to the family barbecue, and your uncle is that funny guy that you laugh at because he's family? That's how I felt with 'Fighter and the Kid.' People would laugh at my stuff, but it was always tough for me to tell. I just needed to see if there was something going on.

When I started out, I tried out all my stuff on national television. There were no comedy clubs, but even if there were, I don't think I would have gone to them. I used to do stuff in the bathroom, and then I'd drive down to NBC and do it on 'The Golddiggers' with Dean Martin.

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.