Comedian

I think kind of what you see in the videos is true to me, if not maybe a slightly heightened version of my real self.

I think I became a gay comedian out of necessity, because what else am I gonna do with that name? And it has worked out now, but it was a very difficult childhood. It sounds like the hokiest stage name ever.

You have to be careful with parodies. I don't like when they're too obvious, 'cause it can be a little cheap.

I love Mayor Pete. I've always liked Joe Biden. I like Elizabeth Warren.

I celebrate everything. We always had a menorah and a Christmas tree - not for any reason other than we always liked celebrating things.

I'm very much a homebody. But I can't help to put CNN on and before you know it, I'm thinking of material.

I know I'm a success when Jake Tapper messages me on Twitter.

I'm a very casual person.

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.

I'm such a huge fan of all this material that I'm spoofing.

I think that I did inherit a very expressive face from my mother and my grandmother.

I heard from Stephen Sondheim, who has become a great supporter of mine. There was no one bigger when I was growing up.

I think that comedy is a great unifier.

My father was a textbook narcissist. If he didn't like the narrative he'd start gaslighting you. He threatened the democracy of our family.

I'm very much a one-man-band.

The worse things are on the world stage, the more fodder there will always be for comedians. But at the end of the day, I trust in my abilities to make comedy and create art, with or without Donald Trump.

I've always wanted to be in concert and do a solo show.

I dropped out of college and worked on a cruise ship for a time.

I really spent most of my childhood in my bedroom watching Barbra Streisand movies and musicals and making videos. That was kind of where it all started for me. I would go to the beach occasionally.

I was doing YouTube before YouTube was a thing. I was making videos on my camcorder for my friends. I would do parodies of Britney Spears videos and stuff like that.