I Always Claim That The Writer Has

I've Tried To Stay Away From Mild Satire. I Want An Audience To Feel Something More Powerful For Their Ten Bucks. If They're Going To Spend Two Hours With Me, And Trust Me To Lead Them Around, I'd Like To Take Them Someplace Special.

Once You're Alienated, You're On Your Own. That Takes You To The World Of The Existential, Where Things Just Kind Of Float.

A Friend Of Mine Is Trying To Do A Documentary Where He Brings Jewish And Arab Comedians To Occupied Territories In Israel. He Wants To Do Shows As A Way Of Finding Some Comedic Common Denominator. When He Proposed The Idea To One Of The Officials At The Jenin Refuge Camp, The Guy Just Stared At Him And Said, "this Is Not A Joke To Us. We Don't Think That Laughing Is The Answer."

I've Got To Find A Compromise Where I Don't Feel Compromised. I've Got To Find Something Equally Good That They Don't Feel Uncomfortable With. At A Certain Point, It's No Longer About What I Thought Was Right, But It's About This New Discovery That Happens With The Actors. It's Nice When The Actor Is Also A Writer.

I'd Like To Think I'd Never Do A Gratuitous Fart Joke.