Why would anybody connect to someone who has everything going for them? It's the person who has faults that people want to connect to. So people identify with certain insecurities on stage and just by me talking about my diabetes people come up to me after the show and tell me "Gabe, my blood sugar is out of control and I feel you". That's the first thing they say, they say "I feel you!".

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

You live by the cake, you die by the cake.

I was not the popular kid in school.

Early on when I started talking about my weight, it was self-deprecating; everything was a joke.

I'm not fat. It's just my awesomeness swelling up inside of me.

You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.