When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.
If you can’t stand yourself, neither can anybody else!
If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.
Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.
The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.
People come up to me and they thank me: ‘I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.’
Every language has its own music.
After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I’ve got nothing more I need to prove.
If I don’t believe it, I don’t care.
If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.