Surround yourself with supportive people. All the negative people, man you have to push them aside.

I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time.

[Making people laugh] was a secret dream I kept and I didn't tell anybody about it until I was about 18.

I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.

Surround yourself with supportive people. All the negative people, man you have to push them aside.

The response you get when you're young like "oh you're just getting laughs because you're a little kid and you're cute". They weren't trying to encourage me at all or tell me to keep pursuing this.

Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in front of people after doing that for a whole year.