The truth is, I've denied it for years, but I love deconstructing comedy.

Some things are just for private. It's like people thinking I'm cold or this or that. It's unfortunate, but I don't need strangers to know that I'm warm. I don't need strangers to know the real me.

I feel so confident and awesome and sexy when I'm with people who are older than me, and I've always been surrounded by people who are older than me. But to be vital in comedy, you have to exist in a world that's dominated by young people.

When I was 17, I read a profile of Carol Leifer. Since then, I wanted to be her. I still want to be her.

If we can send a person to the moon, we can send someone with AIDS to the moon, and then someday we can send everybody with AIDS to the moon.

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.