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“You can't direct without a good crew.”
“I love comedians. They're my community.”
“I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know?”
“When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.”
“It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.”
“To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.”
“The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.”
“Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.”
“Oh, I love stand-up.”
“Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue.”
“A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.”
“I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.”
“Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.”
“Whenever I've encountered a Christian saying, 'Why don't you stop talking like that so I can hear you?' I think, 'Well you're the one putting the earmuffs on, but I wish you could hear me because I like you.'”
“I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.”
“Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.”
“I definitely look at my body and I go: 'Yuck.'”
“I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.”
“I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.'”
“You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.”