If you are very religious, and your religion teaches you that conception equals a baby, I don't know how I'm ever going to win you over to my side.

Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to find your own coven of bad-asses that you trust and want to empower.

For me, it's important to elevate the hypocrisy with humor. Then you really are using the humor to elevate the problem, saying this is why it matters, and then saying we can combine the work together with laughing and being around joyful people and helping out. So the comedy sometimes can actually full-on expose the issue, but also it's a gathering tool. It serves a lot of purposes.

Legislators could easily be out-voted if people voted in midterm elections. The fact that we don't talk about all this stuff [ abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, or voting rights] very much because Donald Trump and the general election is sucking all the air out of the room - if people aren't paying attention to their state, they're certainly not paying attention to what's happening in other states.

Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.