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I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

I've never been able to write for stand-up.

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

I started doing stand-up in college.

Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.

Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.