In an odd way, my parents were proud of me. When they saw me do stand-up, I'd see them looking around the room and watch them taking in the people laughing. On some level, that comforted them.

Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.

There's plenty of ways you can go and encourage people. And you should do that. But don't demonize what you do, I do, what other comics are doing, when you see people showing up and listening and responding because they've heard the messaging in the new kind of way.

Every era in history has needed, and will need, reproductive health services.

If you're a woman and you've decided to step in front of people on any kind of platform and say that you have feelings about anything, you are committing a radical act. People view it as such, so you might as well actually commit a radical act.

This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives.

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.