Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl.

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.

Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers.

I think the mistake a lot of people make with new media is they just focus on one thing. But any one thing - just doing podcasts or just having a website or just doing television - isn't enough anymore.