Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech.

Comics can definitely be subversive on the whole, but it's a stylistic thing.

Comics definitely embody the importance of practicing free speech.

I have a lot of friends who are getting married. I try to avoid talking to them about their sex lives now 'cause it's so depressing. One guy told me it had been six months since he had gotten to second base with his wife. Yeah, I don't know which one was more pathetic: that he used the phrase 'second base' or that he hadn't been there in six months?

Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck.

Your stage persona is usually a version of yourself, to varying degrees. Some folks do a full-on character, so that's different. But most comics do some version of themselves.

Opening for Louis C.K. during his "Hilarious" tour was a great experience for me. He is the generation just ahead of me, because he started so young.