The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. That's what I tell Asian people all the time.

When I was three, my dad thought it would be hilarious to teach me swear words, then have me say them to his friends. They would laugh and laugh. I realize now the laugh was pure shock value, but it felt really good, and I've been chasing it ever since.

Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.

You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and please them, you're too resentful to do it.