Freedom means choosing your burden.
I don't do the mirror thing; maybe once or twice when I first started out.
I've seen people who are not very likeable but hilarious. I think comedians get to a point where they know they're funny, so they don't care - in the sense that they know what they're doing. They have a skill.
Ultimately, an audience wants to laugh. That's who they like, the comedian who makes them laugh.
TV is a different animal. It's not a club set. As you said, you do short sets on TV - about five minutes. So you have to get that rhythm down and also be aware of the camera so you're connecting with the viewers at home as well as the studio audience. It's a different muscle to develop.
Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech.
Comics definitely embody the importance of practicing free speech.
Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.
I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.
Getting out of the comfortable path, that's what exploration is all about.
[After Communism succeeds]. . . then, there will come a peace across the earth.