I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

A long-term relationship is about showing up and working hard and banking on each other. If one's down, the other might be up and can help the other one up, and sometimes you're both down and you just [band] together. Endurance is a big theme of it for me. That might not sound romantic, but I kind of think that it is.

But I also know in standup, there's nowhere to hide. You get on stage and you deliver, or you are eviscerated and you are thrown into a pile of bodies at the bottom of a mountain.

Elderly people, I have found, when they're being honest, are also scumbags, and enjoy a little prurient humour as well.

I no longer believe in freedom of speech.

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.