“I won an amateur competition, 500 bucks to host at the Funny Stop Comedy Club in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.”

“I began to build my own syllabus of comedy performances… looking at old films, television shows, listening to comedy albums, and trying to understand why funny people were funny.”

“Just For Laughs is a comedy festival. You go up there, you do really well, you get seen, you get the audition.”

“He says the secret sauce is collaboration… "I didn't do anything alone… writing comedy with others is really a gas and far more effective.”

“We've got a unique model where a bunch of core donors cover our operational costs. So, every cent given, like, at the night, the comedy night the other night, every cent goes to Tanzania.”