You have to do a show as honestly as you can. But you also can't afford skepticism, because it's preparing for failure, which is useless.

The only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.

I have a lot of beliefs... and I live by none of them...

My uncles were all funny. My dad wasn't funny, but my uncles were all funny. Now I go back and I like him better than them, they were manipulative funny.

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

There's nothing that beats proving you're funny by making a funny thing, and right now there are huge outlets for that, with You Tube and all the other stuff online.

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.