That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.
I never read the tabloids.
While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.
You know, Elizabeth Taylor must be in Heaven going, 'Alright, fire two honey!'
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
I'm a real people-pleaser.
