If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.