In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

Dark comedy helped me survive.

It bothers me when people say 'shock comic' or 'gross-out' because that was only one type of comedy I did. There was prank comedy. Man-on-the-street-reaction comedy. Visually surreal comedy. But you do something shocking, and that becomes your label.