When I announced I had cancer on stage, it was my brain leaping to that insane moment of, "There's no way I could start a show saying, 'Hi, I have cancer!'" And also for me to have these scars, and then think, "Oh my gosh, what if I did stand-up and not even acknowledge that my shirt was off, or that I have scars.

I worked at restaurants and coffee shops and babysitting and just whatever I could do to make money.

When I got sick, it threw everything off course.

In standup, you don't have anything near you except a microphone.

I think my brain just has a natural way of going to what would be the most insane thing, the least likely option.

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

I didn't know what my fate was as far as being alive.