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A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.

I was very young, and I kind of decided I wanted to do comedy. My parents were musicians, so we traveled on a tour bus. You're in a different town every night; as a kid, you're trying to make friends fast. You try to be funny.

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.

I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.

At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.