Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma..

I don't think there's anything more scary than being forced into doing stand-up comedy..

Stand-up comedy is still a very male-dominated world. You look at a set list and maybe there's one woman on there..

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary..

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius..

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it..

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it c….

My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding..

Comedy is in my blood. Too bad it's not in my act..

Comedy is second nature for me..

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing..

The things I talk about in my comedy are my experiences. I just do what I know..

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation..

The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else..

A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.".

Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film..

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how g….

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate the film a….

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me..

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at..

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed..