My father and I were really like a team. I mean, he was very supportive. He'd come to every single one of my live shows.

I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job.

I spend the majority of my time in New York and LA. I feel like a large part of my following and my fans are probably in New York and LA because of the work that I do is very New York-LA-centric. So people do recognize me. But it's nothing overwhelming at all.

I think it [ Difficult People] is for people who don't feel that they have been properly represented on TV. I think it's painting a very accurate if slightly exaggerated for comedic purposes view of the LGBT world in a way that we have never, ever seen in any television show.

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

The camera guys can't mess up. God bless them, they hardly ever do. But they literally don't know what's going to happen next. None of us do. And it all has to come together and be funny.

My father and I were really like a team. I mean, he was very supportive. He'd come to every single one of my live shows.