I don't make a list of questions. Ever. I think a lot of my interviews are driven by my need to feel connection.

What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets.

I'm a guy that after having experience in radio and stuff, if I can trust the people I'm working with, I get a real thrill with working with other people who are good at what they do.

The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.

I'm proud to be part of a generation where reading is a 'look.'

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.