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The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life.

In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.

You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

I learned nothing while I was in school.