Occupation: Comedian Birth: November 9, 1947
A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decisi….
I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material..
Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one..
A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid..
[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep..
My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you wou….
I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people thi….
Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist..
I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material..
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….
The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads..
In his second term, [Ronald] Reagan completed the work of his first term - the rich got really rich, everything was deregulated, advocacy programs we….
Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart..
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….
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….
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….
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'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….
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'….