Meredith Baxter Birney gets beaten by a rod, in the Lifetime Original, Rod.

When I started stand-up - and this is in the '90s - there was definitely people hadn't watched decades of Comedy Central, where people are really much more educated on stand-up comedy.

When our bed is made, it's covered in 40 pillows-like we're stockpiling ammo for the global pillow fight.

I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was.

I love my career, but I feel like you've got to babysit a lot of aspects of things. Assuming that things will be handled properly is just naive. But I think that's anyone's life, right? Even if you're running a construction site, it doesn't matter if you've been doing it for 20 years, you're still going to be blindsided by someone's incompetence or indifference.

There has been this belief among the Catholic community - and this - I'm no expert, this is my opinion - that cafeteria Catholics are wrong.

I think being a doctor is really hard, and it's really this thankless, never-ending job. It's not even that you get done with a project. There are always sick people.