The media is a very necessary thing in our country to keep people honest.

I like being single.

I once had a therapist fall asleep on me. That really wrecks your self-esteem.

I have exposed so much of my own real life. Like I feel like I always try to be honest and I always try to talk about where I am at and what I want.

Being 'edgy' is not just cursing. There are some things socially that are just not acceptable to make fun of. Anything with race, they really won't let you do on TV unless it's completely soft.

I've done 'Letterman' twice and he was friendly, he said hello as he was shaking your hand and in front of the audience, but you never spoke to him before or after.

Lenny Bruce did clean TV. You have to be able to do that, I think, to succeed because if you want to promote something, you go on 'The Tonight Show' or 'Letterman' or whatever, you can't be dirty.

Comedians want honest discussion because it affects us. We make our living talking, so anything around language affects us greatly.

Language in comedy is very violent.

Everyone has a reason why their particular sacred cow is the sacred cow to be honored.

The more disgruntled the white people are, the happier they are to see me, that has to be it. I do really well in Boston, I do really well in Cleveland, I do really well in Philly, Jersey, certain parts of Florida. Places where there are really really aggressive white people tend to love me.

It's not a hard job, radio or standup, there are hard parts of it, sure. There are guys who do ten hours of construction a day don't want to hear me talk about my job being difficult. Compared to what a lot of people do, this is genuinely easy.

I'm not really great at writing things down unless for a roast or a particular event.

It's fun to pick the worst jokes you can think of.

Anything you can do that's self-destructive in Vegas, whatever that is, I do it.

I love doing the radio, and it's different every day. But stand-up is just you and the immediate reaction of the audience. So I love both.

I'd like to get my own TV show on, whether it's a talk show or a comedy, that I write.

Obviously I'm 100-percent for freedom of expression.

Every comic says things that are going to offend someone, so we all have to defend each other with this stuff.

Americans have always been inconsistent and kind of fake with outrage, but we've just slipped totally upside-down.

I'm very careful with my money.

I love everything about Boston. The women are phenomenal, they're all dirty. It's just a really great place to do comedy.

If the show is going really well and the comedian is still annoyed with the audience, chances are he's a Boston comic. That's the beauty of Boston comics.

Ozzy Osbourne is one of my favorite interviews, he's so good.

If I leave the mike in the stand, my hands absolutely move more. I'm not sure if it's a conscious thing.

I think people like to label everything. I just think it's comfortable.

I have cowlicks, so my hair has always been a source of torture for me.

I hate my hair so much.

If someone doesn't like a comedian that's fine; a lot of people probably don't like my standup, and that's fine. But I think that the problem is people want you to get in trouble. That's the issue.

You just have to believe in what you're saying and be able to explain why you said it. There's nothing I say that I can't back up or at least explain why I came to that conclusion, so I'm not afraid of getting in trouble.

I find when most people are offended, it's phony. It's an attention-seeking device. So I love to call them out on it from stage.

The biggest killer to funny is hyper sensitivity to certain subject matter and Montreal is as guilty of that as L.A. or New York or San Francisco.

All major cities are the same. People have the same sensibilities and they get afraid of the same subjects, groaning at the same things.

I wanted to do a talk show that reminded me of the old school ones I loved as a kid, without all the fake enthusiasm and sound bite-driven conversations.

I think what's happening is that women are allowed to be funnier as we stop pretending that there are subjects that they shouldn't address.

With 'Mouthful of Shame,' all of my fans or the majority of them said it's the best thing you've ever done and that meant a lot because as you go on with time, if they're still really enjoying it, that means you're getting better.

You never want your greatest work to be 10 years ago.

For me, a good comedy town is filled with people on the verge of a riot. They need something to relieve the tension.

I love Philly so much. I know that at any time, any place, a fight can break out. Those are great comedy fans.

No matter how many books I've sold, nothing can correct the fact I look like Alfred Hitchcock from the side.

My instinct is to be honest and make fun of things.

If somebody said about me, 'I don't think his jokes are good, I don't think he's a good comedian,' I don't like to read that but that's a fair thing to say.

Here's the rule of thumb: When the entire family looks like the unibomber, they're against gay marriage.

If I'm gonna make fun of Trump, I'm gonna tell you things that I've done that are similar. I like to tell on myself, as well as make fun of the people I'm talking about. I feel like it gives me more of a right to make fun of them if I am talking about myself, too. It's more fun for me that way, honestly.

I know I'm funny, and I like to be in front of people, and the fact that I'm good at that. It's the one thing that gave me self-esteem.

I want people to feel like there's nothing they have to be worried about laughing at. There's nothing that can't be made fun of.

I don't think any comedy is ever shocking. I don't buy that. That's just what people brand it, when someone is saying something they don't like.

I don't watch too much television because I want to write something, and you never want to be influenced by other things that are on - and if they're really funny it'll just depress me because it's something I'm not a part of.

I never care if the audience groans.

Comics who consider themselves 'mavericks' or think the crowd doesn't get them are normally lousy comics.