I can't claim to feel like I've been under some man's thumb in comedy. I've sort of always done my own thing for better or worse, and have been lucky enough to be able to perform ever since.

I don't feel intimidated by any of the people I'm talking to or the situations I find myself in. I just try to make my nana proud.

Sometimes you're just interviewing someone and you're thinking the entire time, How can I get through this really quickly? Because I know this isn't gonna make it. This person is either too long-winded or deathly boring, or they don't have the point of view that supports what you're trying to do in the piece. Or often people misrepresent themselves on the phone - what they're willing to say to you then, they're not willing to say in person.

It's like you can't even go on the radio anymore and condemn a whole subset of people to hell without getting some blowback.

Hopefully the person I'm trying to create is just a funny, dour, evil side of myself that has no other way to express itself. I don't model it after anyone in particular. Who would be like that? Who? I wouldn't want to meet that person. I wouldn't want to be interviewed by that person, I can tell you that.

There's always going to be someone who hates you. There's always going to be people who love you. It's a risk in either direction.

I don't feel like any of the things we're talking about are going to make the world end.