We only hear success stories. You don't hear about the hundreds and hundreds - the overwhelming majority that don't go anywhere. This is a more realistic portrayal of what happens in startups.

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

On stage I just have to be myself. In acting you have to be so many other people.

I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very, very scary. It was suffocating to think that I was just going to do this thing for the rest of my life.

I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.

I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is Wheel Of Fortune because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.