I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

Health food makes me sick.

There's always a source for humor.

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.