Hard work is a muscle that you develop, as is taking risks.

Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you're more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.

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

You'll get them tomorrow. You gave it a good shot. Keep your chin up.

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

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.

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