Comedy

“George Carlin is funny. Congenitally, genetically funny. He's got these harty-har-har chromosomes and genes. Carlin is TRANSLUCENTLY funny.”

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"I’m either behind or ahead of the times," he explains with incongruous equanimity.

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“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.”

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“Belushi is a satirist not because he's mean or neurotic, he says, but because he likes to make people laugh”

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‘I’m just ready to fight some different fights’

After all, she’s not a crisis counselor; she’s a stand-up comedian

(She’s also really fucking funny)

The trailblazing stand-up looks back 25 years on breaking the late-night queer comedy line