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What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer.

The main reason I got into comedy was in the hope that I could make a few people laugh and feel better about life, and the fact that I do that is quite overwhelming, really.

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them. They feel slightly repulsed by it.

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

Comedy is a shared experience, and I think it's great to open that to a wide demographic.

When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.