Have a great, great marriage. Have a great time together. You know something? You'll disagree sometimes, and you'll find out how stupid it is, and then you'll be OK. You will.
— Shelley Berman
I don't know the accident of still being married. I was the worst human being. But we were, I guess, in love. So much has happened to us to bring us together and keep us together.
While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.
I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.
The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.
The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.
I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.
'Inside' was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.
I've got these two wonderful people who run my web site and put me on Facebook. They didn't even ask me. I'm very appreciative of it.
So that this thing that aired in 1963 would result a few years later in personal bankruptcy, would result in having people be on edge with me, wondering when I'm going to blow up.
I will always love to perform standup comedy.
Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
I am careful with my material and presentation.
I was an actor before becoming a comedian.
Though it sold very well, I hated 'The Edge.'
I just sit down and write. I never know when. The most recent one is 'Sarah Still,' which is about our life, Sarah and me. It's my favorite of all my poems.
My whole act is confession.
As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.
My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.
The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.
'Outside' came in '60. 'The Edge' in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was 'Inside.'
