The Problem Is That We Live In

Laughter Gives Us Distance. It Allows Us To Step Back From An Event, Deal With It And Then Move On.

There's Gratification In Making Somebody Laugh. It's A Wonderful Sound. I Find Myself, To This Day, Doing It, Wanting To Make People Laugh.

Well, If You’re A Native Chicagoan, You Know How Dumb He [dr. Robert Hartley] Is. He Gets On The Ravenswood El, He Goes Past His Stop On Sheridan Road, He Gets Off In Evanston, Where The El Is On The Ground, And Then He Walks Back 55 Blocks To His Apartment. Now, Would You Want To Have That Man As A Psychologist? A Man Who Misses His Stop Every Day?

Continuing To Do Stand-up Is Always A Challenge Because The Audiences And The Environments In Which You Work Very Often Differ.

In Today's World, You Would Call My Father Mostly Unaccessible. I'm Not Sure That Isn't True Of Most Fathers At That Time. He Went Through The Depression. I Don't Know What That Would Have Done To My Psyche.