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

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

When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance.

You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent.

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.

Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh.

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.