I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.

One thing that America is objectively exceptional at is overreacting whenever anyone accuses them of not being exceptional.

If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.

I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.