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

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 don't do the mirror thing; maybe once or twice when I first started out.

If you're funny, you can find a stage to get on. If you're good, you'll start to get work and eventually get paid.

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

Some people say homosexuality is a sin. It’s not. God is perfectly cool with it, God feels the exact same way about homosexuality that God feels about heterosexuality. Now you might say, ‘Whoa, slow down. You move too fast. How could you have the audacity, the temerity, to speak on behalf of God?’ Exactly, that’s an excellent point and I pray that you remember it.

'Teachers Lounge' is a web series I co-created with Hollis James. We intentionally left the apostrophe out to turn 'Lounge' into a verb. The show is about teachers lounging around, wasting time.