It's hard to narrow down your influences in comedy.

Everybody that you can think of that does comedy, I have met or worked with almost all of them.

Who are my influences? Everybody.

I love my job and I think my job is hard, but also, my job is such a privilege.

My personal philosophy is, talk about whatever you want on a show, but it better be good. And especially if it's something that challenges folks. You don't want to be on the side of power to demean a group that is at risk. Because that's propaganda. Whenever you're on the side of power, you're not making art. Art upends power.

Before I was a vegetarian, I traveled to South Africa and hung out there for a little bit. And they had different animals - did you know different parts of the world have different animals? Because I didn't until I got there! This is what being an American is like. You're like, Every place has these animals.

Australia's massive. I don't have a lot of downtime.

Run. Yoga. Hike. Generally try to outpace the nerves. If that doesn't work, one Jack on the rocks.