My whole way of looking at entertainment and audience engagement - and my ability to go from one genre to another - comes from my experience in New Orleans.
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I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.
My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.
As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.
I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.
I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.
My life in Hollywood surrounded by celebrities became a point of view for me - sports, fashion, music, film, arts, and politics as a media play.
There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.
I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.
I was heavily involved in musical theater.
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