I think watching too much TV as a kid led me to being very uncomfortable in new situations. To this day, when I drop my kids off at school, I still feel like I'm in 9th grade and I'm uncomfortable and insecure. Like anyone is paying any attention.

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.

For a long time, TV was just the land of handsome, beautiful people, and now it's the opposite.

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

I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.

The first comedians I became fascinated with were the Marx brothers. I couldn't get enough of them. Later in life, I thought, "Well, maybe it's because they were so rebellious and they were just flipping the bird to society and all the rules we're supposed to follow." They were saying that none of it is fair.

My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there.