I found a great deal of relief and excitement watching comics when I was very young. My grandmother was very into them and so was my grandfather. They had a profound effect on me, so I just found myself watching comedians on the after-school shows: Merv Griffin and that kind of stuff.

I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.

As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.

Because we're comics and we pass each other on campus, we know of each other, and a lot of the time there's a mutual respect there.

Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.

Once I learned how to talk, personally, by myself to any number of people, which means do radio without talking to anyone in particular on the air - I just found that my brain became very free to engage in a sort of stream-of-consciousness style of doing what I do.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.