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" I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself. "

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" I'm attracted to heartbreakers. "

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" Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type. "

" Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row. "

" I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order. "

" Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her! "

" Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth. "

" When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man. "

" So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there. "

" Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?' "

" I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings. "

" I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles. "

" Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. "

" I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't. "

" If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows. "

" I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry. "

" So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move. "

" I have lived a carnal life. "

" It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there. "

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" You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pat your house payment. That's a tough crowd. "

" I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian. "

" I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. "

" It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that. "

" Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden. "