We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.
Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.
The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.
I probably get one or two days off every five or six weeks.
I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time.
When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff.