I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.

Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.

The thing to do is just make sure that as part of a disability community, we're not isolating ourselves by drawing differences for the sake of progress.

I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."

I used to be an insult comic, and I didn't end up liking the way that I felt about myself.

I didn't feel like I was putting anything good into the world, even though it was funny. I wanted to do something more positive that would have an impact. So even when I'm doing naked push-ups or whatever, it's astounding to see how people respond to it.

I ended up [doing video] meeting Gillian [Grassie] at the same time that we were getting together a book. We ended up working on it, and she recognized that I had a flair for certain things, and we've worked through it together so that the writing could be really good. It was the perfect partnership, just finding my literary voice and figuring out how comedy translates to the written word.