Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.