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Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.

I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.

I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.'

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.