My stand-up act is very clean.

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it.

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

I am not a joke-teller. Stand-up, I couldn't do.

My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement.