I often think about my future wife and how lax she's been about getting in touch with me.

I think comedy is no different now than it was at other points. It takes a long time to get good and know how to distill what makes you funny beyond the realm of standup, which is what I'm trying to do with 'Teachers Lounge.'

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

Laughing at something is a form of accepting it or at list making peace with it.

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 definitely embody the importance of practicing free speech.

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?