I always wanted to make strangers and friends and family laugh. I was over ten years younger than my brothers. It was hard to get attention without some kind of gimmick, like athletic stardom or being funny.

Is it common for people to become a pothead at 40? Asking for myself.

I just can't dance like no ones watching. I tried but it's futile.

I went to Boston College. It's a Catholic college, yeah I had a nickname there: Jew.

When you're gay every party is a bad sweater party.

I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy.

I think the biggest challenge I have faced is that I have struggled most of my life with often crippling depression which has sometimes if not keeping me off stage kept me from writing regularly and with any kind of confidence.