I didn’t know that it was going to launch a quote-unquote comedic career. I just wanted to do anything other than wait tables.

Technically, I'm a New Yorker.

I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm.

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

You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what’s going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure. You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss.

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