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I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

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I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.

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My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

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My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

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I know you can be funny without being filthy.

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I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.

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Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

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I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.

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I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

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I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: November 11th, 1925

Died: April 11th, 2013

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