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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.

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.

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.

When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

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

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh.

Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.