My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.

It had that kind of open-ended fear to it - like that feeling you get when you're driving and you see a cop. And you're not speeding. You don't have drugs. But you're just thinking, I hope he doesn't notice I'm driving.

You've got to remember that improvisers are writers and actors and directors all simultaneously. That's what's happening in real time because you're writing on your feet, and you are acting out the words and you are directing what the staging is. You're deciding what staging is.

I don't drink a lot. My family calls me an old soul. And my friends call me a pussy.

You need to know what doesn't work to know what works. It's especially true in improv and stand-up.

I'm a whitebread cracker. That's my favorite white person slur: "whitebread". The other day, someone came up to me and said, "What's up, whitebread?" And I was like, "That's not even an insult. That's just my race plus a food. I can do that, too, black bean soup! Stay out of this, Asian chicken platter!"

I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free.