I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.

I am invisible in gay bars.

Ironically, my rabbi was a bar mitzvah Nazi. So I got bar mitzvahed. And though I didn't want to, the theme of my bar mitzvah party was Madonna.

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

I think New Yorkers - they're media savvy. People have a sense of humor.

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

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.