It's a more ridiculing, divisive humor today, especially with the advent of political incorrectness, which is a license to be as ridiculing and awful about certain groups... There should be room for everybody, absolutely, and then the culture is going to decide the prevailing weight. We can't decide it individually. Nobody is here without a reason. ... I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy - from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated - but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it.

Listen, I have no judgment about anything. Some people will bring certain celebrities up to me who are presumably - or known to be - gay and ask 'Why don't the…

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Some journalists are just motivated by their own sense of what they want to say or what they feel comfortable saying or writing about. In '77, I was on the cov…

'Yes, I'm a vegetarian, but not because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.'

I'll publish right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate hi…