I Came From A Place Where There

The One Thing About Comedy, Making It Become A Part Of You, The Audience Loves It, Because You Become Part Of Them.

I Want People To Say At The End Of My Day, You Know, Like I Used To Say About Sidney Poitier And James Cagney And Joan Crawford And Red Skelton And Those Guys And Bill Cosby. They Did Quality And Substance. You Always Remember Them.

I Was In Love With A Lot Of People, Because I Was A Student Of The Game Of Comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - Who Gets No Credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I Loved Them All, And I Used To Just Take A Page Out Of All Of Them.

My Comedy Comes From Pain. I Can't Stand To See Someone Hurting.

As I Got Older, I Got Into All Kinds Of Things In The Streets - But For Some Reason, I Never Got Caught Up With The Gangs Growing Up. Everybody Dug Me, Man. I Never Had Problems.