Comedians can articulate some important and profound ideas that address a lot of the hypocrisy we're inundated with (in the media).

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.

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

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

Like once we picked Jim Norton as the head of security, the writing flows pretty easily.