Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

I always was a funny guy, the class clown. I had a very funny dad and an extremely funny grandmother.

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.”

There are times in your life when you feel like the dumbest man on the planet and you’re insecure about something, and then there are times where you feel like, “Hey, I’m a pretty smart guy and I’m pulling it together …”

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.

Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.

I have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up.