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You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.

I'm not saying writing comedy's brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It's the equivalent of doing homework that's going to end up on national television.

Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more.

You have to be delusional to be a comedian.

You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can't believe I get to do this for a living and have people come up and want to see me.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

It used to be if you wanted to be a comedian, you used to just do sets. You'd go up three times a night, just get better, and then some people would see you and you'd do 'The Tonight Show,' and then boom, you're a comedian.

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.