I think I was always a class clown growing up and a funny kid. I never really knew how to channel that until I got into high school.

When I was growing up, I watched every sitcom imaginable.

I did a number of local children's theater plays growing up, but in 5th grade, I had some good times on stage making people laugh as a troll in 'The Hobbit.' That solidified my dream to be on 'Saturday Night Live,' which was hugely influential for me growing up.

I was invited to do an all-female improv festival in Portland called All Jane, No Dick. The person running it asked me if I had a female improv team, and I just said yes and then figured out who I would want to bring with me. We had such a fun show together that we decided that we should keep doing it.

The big business, Hollywood? I don't really work in that business. I peripherally work in it, but I'm not involved in it the way some people are.

My mission my whole career was just to be somebody that you can look at and say, 'That's the guy I want to go into battle with.'

I try to show up and do my job and get my work in every day, keep pressing forward.

It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do.