"For strangers, what I get a lot is people calling me the opposite of what I am."
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"I was a disabled child. So, people made fun of me, don't pretend like this never happens. But at the same time, I never cried about it. I never got sad about it."
"I kind of want to know a little bit about everything."
"Now, I've gotten to the point in my career, I'm 13 years in, to where I know that I'm funny. I know that I'm good at this."
"There are plenty of wonderful, good fat people in the USA that have no problems being fat, who I have no problems with being fat."
"When you talk about modern comedy I think there's a big three right now, and that's Louis C.K., Bill Burr, and Jim Jefferies. I don't think anyone's doing it better than those three guys."
"I don't want to be mean. I try not to be."
"Just imagine in 20 years, when candidates will have grown up with social media their entire lives. We're going to have a president where we have - where someone could go through their timeline, or someone could go through their Snapchat, or someone will find - a future president will have sent a d### pic."
"In every other aspect of their life, we have entertainment that is crafted almost to an individual. So they expect that from stand-up as well."
"If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that."
"Every now and then we're going to fail."
"I don't get all the anger that is thrown at comedians."
"Every now and then you'll say something that didn't quite work. But the important thing is, as a comic, you try to learn why it didn't. And then you adjust and figure out how to either make it work or just abandon it because it's just not funny."
"I'm funny because I'm funny. And there's more to offer."
"I don't know why you'd go to a comedian and say, "You know what? You have a large menu of items, but this one thing I did not like and therefore, you should be shut down. You should cease to make a living and you should be thrown out in the streets.""
"I don't think I'm extremely intelligent by any means."
"I try not to be mean for the sake of being mean, and if I do do a joke or a tweet or something that is at someone's expense - and those are my fine lines; obviously they're there - I want it to be something that's pretty much across the board we all as a society agree this is bad."
"I just don't get if you have ever gotten offended by a joke, why would you go to a comedy club? That's where jokes happen."
"When a soldier of the night's watch dies they say, "And now his watch is over." That's what they say when a comedian dies. They go, "And now his tour is done.""
"Women feel safe with me as well they should, because not only am I morally objected at going too far, but physically I cannot do it."