I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

Aside from accidentally by my kids, like wrestling around with my kids, no one has ever punched me in the face.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

My ability to notice that kind of thing, the sanctity of the bubble that you create, has not been so good in a way, in that I notice it concurrently with actually doing the thing. I always notice it in retrospect.

The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well.