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

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.

Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.

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

People don't come to a comedy club simply to hear someone's thoughts, no matter how profound.

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. So it's like he's sort of a senior and I'm a junior, in terms of the business. He's done so much - from writing on Conan and Chris Rock to writing and directing movies, having his own HBO show, "Lucky Louie," and now having "Louie" on FX.

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