I had my own insecurities, which a lot of my comedy would come from, about not being able to live up to their academic expectations. Acting out those insecurities was a way of confronting them, like, “Let me just lean into being a guy who can’t read or write.”

The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.

I am a Patsy Cline fan.

In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don’t think I was a very good actor when I did that.

Technically, I'm a New Yorker.

Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.

I think we're all guilty of mistaking the actors we've seen over and over again - we think we know them.