I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst.

A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.

I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.

I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.

Though it sold very well, I hated The Edge.

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.

Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.