Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

You would never do stand-up without an audience. I mean, no one would even consider it. It's like they're the instrument you're playing.

To me, comedies are usually the least funny movies. Movies that are actually a comedy are usually not all that funny. To me Goodfellas and Raging Bull are two of the funniest movies I ever saw.

I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.

Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.