With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference.

My girlfriend loves to eat chocolate. She's always eating chocolate. And she likes to joke she's got a chocolate addiction. You know, she'd be like keep me away from those chocolate bars, I'm addicted to them. And it's really annoying. So one day I put her in the car and I drove her downtown and I pointed out a crack addict. And I said you see that honey? Why can't you be that skinny?

I didn't care about the backlash. I think the reason it was so severe was because they didn't know anything about me in New Zealand. If I had made jokes about a shark attack in the US, no one would have cared.

The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.

I know her in the biblical senseand when I say that, I mean I don't believe a word she says.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

It's always difficult when someone close to you passes away. But it's really tough when they're on top of you.