I like to dissociate myself from the person I was even three hours ago. It's a natural requirement to be a writer.
There's a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn't fall into these traps - by its very nature comedy is supposed to be edgy and anti-establishment.
I'm okay with anybody interpreting my work anyway because I don't take it seriously.
If you start imagining an audience for yourself, you don't do justice to the job. You fall into that trap of a self-image.
I think both comedy and dissent are liberating, for the listener as well!
I am primarily a comedian. Sometimes I also do comedy about my cats. Now unless you find metaphors in cats, there is nothing political about those and I love doing such jokes as much as I love doing political content.
I don't think stand-up comedy is becoming too serious, in fact, I wish it was. We are still mostly doing frivolous stuff.
