I remember my first standup act when I was seventeen; I did a really lame song about being flat chested. I was doing it in New York, and I remember Kevin Brennan, the guy I lost my virginity to, was like "That song doesn't make sense, you have tits."

Letting your freak flag fly is something, no matter who you are, that takes great bravery, straight up.

When God gives you AIDS - and God does give you AIDS, by the way - make lemonAIDS.

If I don't do stand-up for two weeks, I get freaked out.

Comedy is about talking about my own experience, and I'm a woman, and that's my experience, and just because it isn't yours doesn't invalidate it.

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 am Jewish and proud of this culturally and ethnically - the ways in which I was born this way and am happy with whom I am.