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 thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.

I have a medical condition, all right. It's called caring too much, and it's incurable. Also, I have eczema.

I couldn't just get up every day and be miserable and complain.

Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.

By TV standards - I'm not comparing it to manual labor by any means - by TV comedy standards, it is the hardest job I will ever, ever have. There is nothing that could be harder. I mean, when you combine the amount of writing that has to be done - sharp writing - with the fact that you then take it to the street and improvise with both celebrities who have no idea what's going to happen and real people who are not actors or comedians who don't even know I'm about to talk to them... It's lightning in a bottle every time.

I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.