I think sharing experience makes everything better. When people get talking about how they've overcome something or how they haven't, it's nourishing.

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

Hopefully standup will become special again.

People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of knowing whether I can handle either of those. I'm much better with need and fear. They are what ground me.

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.

One thing I'm grateful for, and also surprised and excited about, is that I have a place in the community of comics now. In a real way. And I honor that. A lot of what I do is in support of the community and bringing new talent - talking to people that people don't know. And defining us as a community.

When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.