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I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.

Oh, I love stand-up.

A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was improvising only: 'Stand-up's terrible.' It's so ignorant and stupid to do that. But it's easy to do that. So that's where I came from.

My background is in improv and writing.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

I did standup for a lot of years, too, but when you come out as a standup, you get the feeling from a crowd - it's a kind of a 'make me laugh' attitude. But when you come out as an improvisor, they realize that they're suggesting everything you do. So they're already invested in the scene, and they actually want it to work.

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.

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

The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.