In 27 years doing this, I've seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets. One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo.

I do love standup. I love comedians. They're my community. Also, because I know so many of them, I know the value of them. I know what they can do.

The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

When people are getting richer and richer but they're not actually producing anything, it can't end well.

If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb.

Working in TV and navigating success is a tricky thing. It's easier to navigate the hard work of starting out because you just do anything they let you do, but once you get into an orbit, after the thrusters have pushed you into the orbit, now you have to navigate that orbit. There's no choices when you're starting out. You're just like, "Please, let me do anything." But then it turns around and it's like, "We'll let you do anything".