Louis C. K. is one of my all time favorite standup comedians.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.

When I was in high school I was a really huge 'SNL' fan. I remember the cast around the time I started watching it - Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon, Cheri O'Teri, Tracy Morgan. I did research to find out how people got on the show. Their bios always said they came from an improv team, so I started taking classes.

Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed.

A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.