The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads..

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren'….

Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist..

In this political climate, people are so shut down to other ideas - I call it a hardening of the categories - that if you can get them to open up and….

[On being lesbian:] One pointer: don't come out to your dad in a moving vehicle..

Gays have always been in the military. Alexander the Great was originally Alexander the Fabulous. A gay man invented C-rations. He claims he could ne….

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material..

Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart..

[On Nancy Reagan:] At one photo op press conference, she toured a crack house and decried how awful it was, yet one suspected that for our Drug Czari….

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'.

Of all sports, football seems to be the most sanctioned homosocial opportunity for straight men to be with each other, pat butts, struggle, strive, a….

We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movemen….

I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm t….

Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surf….

In his second term, [Ronald] Reagan completed the work of his first term - the rich got really rich, everything was deregulated, advocacy programs we….

After the Reagan years, there were only three people of color in the Republican Party. Their slogan was 'Republicans - the Other White Meat.' George ….

Each time we had a visiting writer, I asked what she thought of women and humor. By the end of the year, I had perfected my question and asked Adrien….

I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own ….

As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that….

John Paulk, the poster boy for 'ex-gays' was found in a gay bar in Washington. He said he was there to use the bathroom. But nobody thought to ask hi….

Teaching is performance art..