I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, 'Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.'

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.