'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.

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

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.

Comedians can articulate some important and profound ideas that address a lot of the hypocrisy we're inundated with (in the media).

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

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

I think the more you hone your voice, take risks and talk about things that matter, the better chance you have of getting into the realm of the philosophers of stand up. But you have to be funny.