My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn't know she existed until I was 13 or 14 years old. I knew I was growing up in a house where people were angry and sad.

Taking the time to polish a pun or fine-tune a practical joke is a way of saying, 'I'm thinking about you and I want to please you.'

Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.

I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

My influences are a wide variety: from Dave Chappelle stand-up comedy specials on YouTube, to watching chick-flick comedy movies, to scrolling through stuff people say on the Internet.

I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.