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.

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

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

It's a constant process of bouncing ideas off of one another and intuitively arriving at the right decision in the moment.

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

I don't think comics necessarily think in literary terms. There is an element of developing your stage persona and your comedic voice, but I don't think comics see it like a character in a novel.

After twenty plus years of performing hundreds of shows a year, I prefer to try things out on stage rather than for friends. I don't see the benefit in that, really.