I'm Particularly Proud Of My Reluctance To

I Think People Have This "it Can't Hurt To Ask" Mentality, Which Is True On Some Level. I Get Comics Like, "hey, Will You Look At These Videos Of Me On Myspace?" I Was Like, "well, Who's Gonna Benefit From That? What If I Don't Like You?" No, I'm Gonna Write To A Stranger And Say, "hi. You Like Me, And I Don't Like You. And Now I Feel Bad When I Didn't Need To Feel Bad, Because You Put Me On The Spot." Or Like, "can I Open For You?" Well, I've Never Seen You Work, So No. I Certainly Made Awkward Mistakes When I Was Starting Out, And They're Just Trying To Have A Career.

I Did End Up Doing Substitute Teaching, But There's Not A Lot Of Teaching Involved In That.

And The Goal Really Is To Make The Audience Laugh, To Bring Them Some Joy.

I Want A Room That I Can Definitely Pack Out. I Don't Want To Sweat That Part, "am I Gonna Have Enough People?" So I Usually Pick Like A Hundred, A Relatively Small Room. Also, I'm Looser In A Small Room. I Don't Want To Record An Album In Front Of A Thousand People, Not That I Could Draw A Thousand, But I Just Want A Room That I Can Really Work Back To Front. That's Just A Very Comfortable Place For Me To Be Loose.

I Wasn't As Nervous As I Thought I Would Be When I Started