Most comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.

It's so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around the people doing what we want to do.

With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism.

In the writing, I'm just trying to go deeper, emotionally, and learn more about myself and reveal more and find a way to connect with people in new ways.

To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.

I always thought it was important to overdeliver, and when I got one of my first jobs, writing jokes for Garry Shandling when he was hosting the Grammys, I stayed up all night and wrote a hundred jokes, and I thought, "I'm always going to be the person that gives them more than they requested, and that's why they'll want to keep me around."

I very rarely made any move to direct anything. I didn't have any faith in myself.