It always comes down to what the crowd buys coming out of your mouth, which differs from one comic to the next.

TV is a different animal. It's not a club set. As you said, you do short sets on TV - about five minutes. So you have to get that rhythm down and also be aware of the camera so you're connecting with the viewers at home as well as the studio audience. It's a different muscle to develop.

I belong to a gym now... well, let me rephrase that: I don't belong there at all, but I go.

Sometimes it's fun to explore ideas that might make people uncomfortable. If you let it, there's a lot of self-censoring that can go on in the name of remaining likeable, but I don't find that an artistically interesting path to take.

Comedians have varying levels of training. It can range from classically trained actors (like Robin Williams) to people who took comedy classes to folks who just started doing it. That's the beauty of comedy: it's close to a pure meritocracy.

Ultimately, an audience wants to laugh. That's who they like, the comedian who makes them laugh.

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