I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.
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Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.'
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As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.
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Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.'