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When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.

Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.

A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.

I don't believe any particular ethnic group is smarter than any other group.

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested.

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.

The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with an audience and there's not a laugh.

Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

We were the guys on the other side. It was hilarious.

You don't need to be stable to be a stand-up comedian.

My influences were Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce.

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.