The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

Not that that's the goal, but sometimes these funny insights can also be deeply profound.

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?

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

The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation.

Laughing at something is a form of accepting it or at list making peace with it.

Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.