I have a lot of friends who were stand-ups, and they just stopped after a while, because they didn't like that battle, or they just couldn't do it. And then they would get on a sitcom and get visible and get back into it, because the audience was just way easier on them. But they lost those crucial years of learning to turn any audience into your audience.

Nowadays - and I don't want to make some dopey cultural statement here - everyone can be, just by existing in society, because we all have a ship that we follow. Even if it's other people, like on MySpace pages, we're just as collective of enthusiasts now. That seems to be the world we're in.

I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.

Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure.

I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.

I would always rather shoot for something unique and fail than do a script because I feel like they're hitting all the right mainstream beats.

I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.