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With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.

It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time.

You don't service a big, fun premise comedy and then shoot yourself in the foot with too much irony. You need the audience to invest in the fun and the warmth and generally care about the characters.

Stand-up comedy is a sickness. Who wouldn't want a room full of people laughing and screaming at you just because of who you are? Nothing is as good, except maybe having a baby.

You really have no idea whether or not what you're writing is funny. In stand-up and sketch comedy, you know right away and you can make your changes accordingly.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.