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American - Comedian Born: June 2, 1955

Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

Night Loved Live Comedy

I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.

Funny Me Night Live

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

Money You Hurt Free

Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.

Change Sea Personality Me

I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.

Fight Said Different Shoot

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

Why Become Out Kind

We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?

Life Funny You Think

Now we're here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one's going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We'll see what happens.

Hope Business School Go

I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.

You Beach Church Lady

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

Life Character World Dream

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I recently found out about this other super movie star. He only works from about 11:00 to 4:00, so all his movies take like 120 days. But this was a lot of stuff to do in 35 days.

Movies Like Only Days

I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

Me Laugh Gay Never

It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

Me People Laugh Know

This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.

Life Parents Sex Will

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

Old Years Thirty Level

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.

People Chance See Get

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

Look Enjoy Matter Go

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

Myself Want Secret Many

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

Impossible Sometimes Joke Star

I'm more of a people pleaser.

People More Pleaser

After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.

Me Parents Television Like

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

Humor Great Team Friends

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

Competition Comedy Lucky Got

I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.

Myself Night World Live

I never read the tabloids.

Never Read Tabloids

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

Face Just Because Try Expression

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