When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke is their knowledge of themselves, or the persona they've created as themselves. So that when you're in a room with writers, you can say, 'Guys, that's a funny line, but I wouldn't say it.'

I have an aversion to laugh tracks - the moment I hear a laugh track, I go to another channel.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.