I'm a human person, so I do have some sort of compassion for even the people I'm mocking. But at the end of the day, I'm the little guy taking on the big guy. That to me is not bullying. That's satire.
I don't have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.
I celebrate everything. We always had a menorah and a Christmas tree - not for any reason other than we always liked celebrating things.
My parents always had a Christmas tree in the house and I was put in ballet at a very young age. So every year I would be in 'The Nutcracker.'
Comedy is math, music is math, and editing is, so I think those all work together.
Into the Woods,' 'Sweeney Todd' - those were my religion.
There's something really powerful about comedy. When the little guy, the comedian, punches up towards the big guy, or Trump, exposing him, calling out the emperor for having no clothes, that's really important.
I mean, I'm from the Joan Rivers, Don Rickles kind of old-school comedy in that nothing is off the table, certainly not in politics. So, I think if you can find something to laugh at, that's got people kind of on edge, or, you know, stressed out, I think you gotta go for it.
I love Mayor Pete. I've always liked Joe Biden. I like Elizabeth Warren.
I think that comedy is a great unifier.
I hear from people all the time from all sides of the aisle, and I hear from people strangely enough who say, 'I don't agree with you politically... But I love your videos. They make me laugh.'
It's amazing that my career took off from my living room. It's an amazing time when everyone has a platform and everyone has the ability to get where they're going without the middle-man.
Sondheim's work especially, and musical theater like that, just spoke to me so much and taught me so many lessons.
The fact that I am able to put myself out there in this age of social media and YouTube is really a gift to someone who never felt like I fit into any particular mold. One of the reasons people are responding to it is because it is coming from a pure place.
I guess to long story short it, I was really just working day jobs when I moved to New York and trying to pay the bills, working in restaurants and as a receptionist, and at one of those reception jobs, I just got so bored, I started a blog, honing my writing skills a little bit.
My family is very New Yorker.
Mom would go to bed at night and pray that God would make her Bernadette Peters.
I had a quick family. Very witty. I learned my rhythm from that.
My father was Donald Trump in many ways. His narcissism. I grew up with that generation of guys from New York, a generation of New York phony snake-oil-salesmen kind of energy.
It's a great thing about this Internet thing we've got going. I have the luxury of not going through filters or network execs to do my art.
