With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.

The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them.

Whatever expectations I had for myself, none of them have come to pass. I grew up thinking I was going to be an actor, which I am. But I thought I'd be a very serious sort of Shakespearean guy going from town to town having sex with various Juliets all over the country.

I never really understood what was expected of me as a man, or how I was supposed to interact with women, but worse, with other guys. I did not relate to them.

My fear is if I expose myself, not so much that I'll be hurt, but that the reaction will be "Is that all there is? Is that the entirety of you? Because it's boring."

Part of what's exciting to me about my career is the constant looking forward. Whenever I finish one project, I am looking to what's next.

I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.