At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.

American Beer is a lot like making love on a canoe - it's fucking close to water.

As long as there are innocent nickels to be made from the gullible, Python-starved public, I shall be out there dressed in silly frocks and singing filthy lyri…

Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates.

In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, The Party can always find you!

Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, a…

Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.