I'm not a political comedian. That's just not what I do.

I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.

I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know?

You don't look down at your feet. A lot of comedians want to look down at their feet, but you break contact with the audience.

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

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

I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and I wasn't good at it. I was only 17-years-old, so I had a lot to learn about life in general. But I just kept on trying. I was young enough and stupid enough and I had no other choice. I had nothing else I was good at.