I don't think comedy comes from hotbeds of doing shtick. I think it usually comes from some kind of childhood humiliation or darkness.

I don't wanna be labeled as straight or labeled as gay. I just want people to look at me and see me as white.

Men like to squash you. I just want someone who's happy with himself, happy with his life. He doesn't have to squash mine.

Look at the people who are kind of the funniest cultures, they're the cultures of the people who have been the most oppressed, black people and Jews. Not that they're the only funny people, but culturally, it comes from the pain, you know?

I don't think comedy comes from hotbeds of doing shtick. I think it usually comes from some kind of childhood humiliation or darkness.

In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it.

Your inability to see yourself clearly is what's keeping you alive.