People for the most part can smell lies, at least I thought that until I saw audiences applaud at Carlos Mencia.

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

Selling your life to sit in a box and work for a machine. An uncaring machine that demands productivity that doesn't understand you and doesn't want to understand you... There's no natural behaviour. Everyone is wearing clothes they don't want to wear. Everybody is showing up and doing something they don't want to do. They have no connection to it. That's the problem with our society.

I think stand is better now than it's ever been. I think it's the greatest time ever to do standup comedy.

The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.

If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?

If I could, I would live in Houston, and I would encourage any comic starting out looking for a good place to develop to move there.