For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

It's not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage. I feel more like I'm doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.

I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.

I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.

Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.