You look at the world and see how scary it can be sometimes and still try to deal with the fear. Comedy can deal with the fear and still not paralyze you or tell you that it's going away. You say, OK, you got certain choices here, you can laugh at them and then once you've laughed at them and you have expunged the demon, now you can deal with them. That's what I do when I do my act.

There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.

Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don't want to go to school anymore.

I had my back waxed once by two women... and at one point they said, Do you mind if we take a break?

Shooting in New York is the shiznit, if I may be so bold. It was great. New York is a character. People who live here know that.

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.