Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.

There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.

Americans just don't understand dry wit.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

I have a green card now, but they can take that away, yeah, they can take that away at any moment. So please don't; please let me keep it.

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.