I have lows, you know, everybody does ... but I kind of know how to handle it. I like to let myself wallow in it. I enforce it with terribly sad music, and it kind of pushes me through to the other side eventually, and I always know it's going to pass.

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

Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture of me. The juxtaposition was meant to illustrate two meanings of "offensive." Seriously. It broke my heart. It's that accepted what I do is offensive?

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

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

I don't want to deconstruct what I do.

I just think of myself as a comedian, really.