Humor is based on the way a man looks at life's ironies, and being a member of a minority group can certainly be ironic.

I've dropped a lot of race humor from my routines, not because I think it is in bad taste, but because I don't want to be guilty of telling old jokes.

Humor is based on the way a man looks at life's ironies, and being a member of a minority group can certainly be ironic.

Divorces are getting so common that a woman I know doesn't bother getting a new marriage license. They just punch her old one and give her a transfer. You can't teach an old dog new tricks - so she keeps changing dogs.

I'm living the life of liberty, happiness and pursuit.

You see, the patience of an audience is very short, particularly with a non-entity. You're an intruder, and you must make them laugh within three or four seconds. My poems fit the requirements, and I'm always thinking up new ones.