The Great Thing Is That The Funny

I Do Like To Make People Cringe. That Discomfort, Tension, Embarrassment, Pain - All Of Those Things Interest Me, And Not Through Some Sort Of Masochistic Or Sadistic Impulse. It Illuminates What Being A Human Being Is. It Taps Into What It Is To Be Human More Incisively Than Stuff That's Just Very Pedestrian.

I Happen To Have A Public Profile. Ditto Newspaper Editors. It's A Result Of What I Do, Not An End.

Comedy Is Unique In The Sense That Laughter Is A Palpable Noise That Everyone Makes.

Look At All Those American Preachers Who Got Caught With Their Pants Down. They Say One Thing And They Are Doing Another. I Try To Be More Honest About It, Both In My Thinking And My Behavior.

I Knew Lots Of Irish Ladies In My Life Who Would Say Daft Things And Then Would Just Say Something Incredibly Truthful In A Very Simple Way With Simple Language - A Few Well Chosen Words That Would Take An Intellectual Five Minutes To Express. I Like That.