Occupation: Stand-Up Comedian Birth: February 8, 1942
In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln ….
In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely by wallpapering and eating artic….
I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition..
I was in the De Witt Clinton Hight School marching band. One of the worst bands ever formed. When we played the national anthem, people from every co….
Fear is the greatest salesman..
I'd walk into the school, smell that institutional smell of the tomato soup, peanut butter, disinfectant, and boys room. Pass the lunchroom, see the ….
Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priestho….
According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones found way….
But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my w….
I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after XXIV. The game will be the ….
I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhaust….
[T]he Super Bowl, the quintessential American creation. A dizzying mélange of brilliant entrepreneurship in an atmosphere of intense competition. It ….
My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family..
And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy..
The `50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way and then the `60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS..