I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.

I've never had a writer, and I'm proud of that. Everything I've per­formed has been from my own head.

The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.

It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing.

I don't do impressions.

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.