I love the Oxygen network - I love everything about the Oxygen network.
No one but John Oliver is going to be able to figure out the code of making a 20-minute monologue on futures, securities, and currency speculation interesting, funny, and poignant politically.
For all of the lumps and warts of the Satmar community, there are also a lot of beautiful parts.
I sometimes wonder why I talk about Judaism so much in my act, and the reason is that it's such a huge part of who I am, and I only make fun of stuff that I care about.
If you look at vaudeville in theaters vamping between acts, it was always jokes written and banter in the moment.
Richard Pryor had real sincere and vulnerable moments.
When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids.
Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap.
I'm from Oakland and I started doing comedy around 2001.
It was great starting in San Francisco. I really think it's is the best place to start in the country.
Problematic' is one of these meaningless jargon words that people on the internet outrage circles throw at one another.
The problem with the internet and the way that we communicate on the internet is - I mean it's obvious to everybody - but sometimes we don't stop and take a breath and think about it.
I don't know how effective it is or isn't, but there's something weird about putting cameras on human beings, and talking on camera.
But, for me, I'm such a complex person with so many different facets and so much depth that asking me the same question twice seems almost unfair to the reader. I'm going to die a mystery already, so you want to find out as much about me as you can while I'm still here.
Describing yourself as edgy is one of the least edgy things a person can do.
I think people are really desperate for conversations. I'm really fascinated by the idea that at the same time, the internet is sort of expunging our attention spans.
I've been politically radical my whole life, so when the left attacks, that hurts more.
It's a Hollywood screenwriting notion that change comes because of one epic, soul-crushing event... What's more common is that the slow decay of the nonevents of your life build up until you can't take it anymore.
There are so many political talk shows out there that are doing such a good job that it would be foolish of me to try to get in the ring with them.
But I'm getting to a point where I'm trying to stop reading reviews about myself, only because it's a no-win situation. If they say something nice, you get a little ego pump. But people on the Internet are straight-up cruel, and I'm becoming increasingly uncomfortable reading the ridiculous cruelties that people spit out on the Internet.
