I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings?
I like the idea of conceiving a show and putting on a show, and especially when I got to the place where I could play theaters.
If I was confronted with some 20-year-old American hotshot, I'd hate him.
I just look at Miley Cyrus, and I'm like, 'Great, you've doubled your audience. But you've also doubled the number of people that hate you, and doesn't that hurt?' It takes a crazy person not to be affected by that.
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you.
I know I'm probably digging for fresh fruit in the garbage, and as much as anyone, my attitude is, if stuff's sincere, it's gooey and boring and uninteresting. But it's no way to live.
I've kind of stopped valuing laughter as the end-all measurement of what I'm doing.
I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments.
For me, comedy is constantly presented as this fake casualness, like a guy just walked on stage going, 'This crazy thing happened to me the other day.' And he's in front of 3000 people, and he's acting like an everyman, and he's getting paid so much money.
There's only one rule in stand-up, which is that you have to be funny. Yet 99 per cent of comics look and talk exactly the same.
My career was exploding at the same time that social media itself was expanding. But when my online videos were taking off, I didn't think, 'Oh, great! I'm going to be able to parlay this into a career!' I just wanted to be a comedian. I just wanted to perform live.
With 'Words, Words, Words,' that show was me experimenting with something, and then there was a clear direction for me.
I'll stop when I think I'm not doing good stuff. I'll never exploit something just because people like it.
The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.
My success, literally, is your success figuratively.
When I see someone filming me, I don't usually think, 'No, man, don't put this up online!' I'd think, 'Hey man, you don't get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!' I love going to theatre and to shows so much.
I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.
I've always liked the format of YouTube, sharing things for free, which is a nice exchange between people.
Everyone in my family is very supportive, and any mention of family in my show is just, in my idea, the funniest version of the family of the guy of who's performing.