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- I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
- I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
- What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense,…
- I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.
- I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics.
- I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.
- I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was…
- I'm standing behind a wall of jokes. You don't know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I'm not on the…
- Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything…
- I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every…
- My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill…
- My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she loves. A lot of times she tells…
- The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in…
- There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you…
- If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.
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