Being funny it turns out is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you you are fine.

Well I mean if a joke or humor is bawdy it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

I never know when I am being funny and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side they don't like you as much. I find too that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind like a mild disability some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

Do you know it's funny but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.