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Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

If I tried to do comedy for the rest of my career, I would not be very successful.

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

I always felt that my way into comedy would be through my writing rather than my acting.

I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

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

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.

In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.