Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don’t consider yourself a writer.

I suppose the difference between baby people and me is that I do not consider smiling while farting ’holding up your end of a conversation.

In an odd way, my parents were proud of me. When they saw me do stand-up, I’d see them looking around the room and watch them taking in the people laughing. On some level, that comforted them.

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn’t really matter.

It’s always fun when somebody who you admire and respect is the voice – is your voice, as a viewer.

I’m Catholic. My mother and I were unpacking and she found my diaphragm. I had to tell her it was a bathing cap for my cat.

There are people that say you should never use humor to talk about anything that’s important or hard, and since I don’t believe that, at some point there has to be a level of “agree to disagree.”

Opportunities present themselves to me. That’s how my whole life has been pretty much. I’ve been lucky.

There’s plenty of ways you can go and encourage people. And you should do that. But don’t demonize what you do, I do, what other comics are doing, when you see people showing up and listening and responding because they’ve heard the messaging in the new kind of way.

If you’re a woman and you’ve decided to step in front of people on any kind of platform and say that you have feelings about anything, you are committing a radical act. People view it as such, so you might as well actually commit a radical act.