“Just an ordinary bloke with penchant for glitzy cross-dressing and rumpled ironies, Izzard is himself a contradiction in comic terms.”
Originally published October 1, 1996
“George Carlin is funny. Congenitally, genetically funny. He's got these harty-har-har chromosomes and genes. Carlin is TRANSLUCENTLY funny.”
Originally published May 10, 1976
"I’m either behind or ahead of the times," he explains with incongruous equanimity.
Originally published April 9, 1964
“An 'Emergency Committee Againt Harassment of Lenny Bruce' was formed over the weekend as a result of the arrest”
Originally published April 9, 1964
“Motherfucking drug dealers. They want me to kill myself. They always smiling, saying, ‘Hey, Charlie, how many? You got my money?’ Nah, I can’t do it. It’s a fuckin’ nightmare.”
Originally published January 17, 1989
“Belushi is a satirist not because he's mean or neurotic, he says, but because he likes to make people laugh”
Originally published July 28, 1975
‘I’m just ready to fight some different fights’
August 10, 2018