I'm very underground.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.

I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.