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Quotes by Comedian

"Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution."

"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."

"If the police ever try to pick me up, Michael Jackson told me I can hide out at his house."

"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."

"If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none."

"Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine."

"I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone."

"I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'"

"All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats."

"I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance."

"My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo."

"Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone."

"I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin."

"Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?"


"I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry."

"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife."

"No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds."

"I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12."

"We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs."

"Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal."

"I was born in very sorry circumstances."

"A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers."

"The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win."

"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."

"No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic."

"I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself."

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."

"I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person."
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