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When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

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.

Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.

I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.

One moment I can be happy and laughing, but then it comes over me. It's my mom.

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.

Whenever I feel I am going through my own 'little' challenging moment, I just think about my mom.

As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over how weird I sounded - like an old man when I was just a toddler! But no one was gonna shut me up.

My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.