Bill Burr, Freddy Soto, Joe Rogan, Tom Segura… those people influenced me a lot more than any of the older guys like Richard Pryor.
As long as you have your own apartment and you can pretty much make rent for the next year, you're golden!
One thing I hate in ethnic comedy is giving the audience the opportunity to laugh in a racist way at a thing. A lot of times dwarf comedians will do that, Arab comics, and gay comics will do it; everyone is laughing, but they're not laughing at the joke, they're laughing at this crazy character.
If I focus solely on developing new material, then I can get a new 45 minute to an hour in about six months. Then I'll work on it and work on it and can make it killer within another six months or so.
Everyone in L.A. talks about getting an agent or a manager in terms of getting on a sitcom or getting on a movie or doing something else.
When Joe Rogan started his podcasts he'd have me, Joe Diaz, and all our friends help him for the first few. And I told him 'Dude, no one will listen to audio that's over an hour long. You've got to end it at 59:59 or less.' And I was way wrong.
Marc Maron yells at people. I have a memory of him yelling at Jonah Ray from offstage about something he was saying, just fun stuff.
I used to get a lot of death threats. After a while I realized that no one's gonna do anything or they would've.
I was on the outside of the industry. So I started a podcast early in the podcast boom and that caught on a little. I made an album that went to No. 1 on the iTunes charts. I made my own special. I started my own storytelling show.
I'm like an overgrown child! I don't know how to do anything!
Leonard Cohen kept his Jew name. He's so cool. It's too bad he died.
I'm a cultural Jew, I was raised with it, so I'm still into it, like gefilte fish with kugel.
Being Jewish is a culture and a religion; we have food, music, and land specific to us.
My CD, my first release, was at the Comedy Works in Denver, one of the best clubs in the country.
Get out of people's way and let them be who they are. If they make a mistake, fine, that's on them.
I want to do a travel book.
I get lost a lot.
I think you're a comedian as soon as you start. I don't think there's a moment where you become a full comic.
I lived with my parents until I was 25.
I grew up so conservative. I grew up as an orthodox Jew.
