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

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.

Sometimes crowds start out not liking someone but then they shift and love them. Or vice versa. It can shift on a dime.

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.

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?

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.