I've been doing comedy for 20 years now. I started when I was 13 and I think for the first 10 years I was impersonating other people.
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Talking about darker stuff from my life was definitely very cathartic and at times confronting.
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In comedy you are allowed to be weird - and even applauded for it.
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It's a universal experience to be compulsively doing something that's damaging your life.
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A Canadian comedian once told me that when you first go out there to imagine that you're actually just going back out for the encore, that all the clapping is because they've already seen you do your thing and they want to see more. You can train your mind to do anything.
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If I could go back and tell 13-year-old self that I would be on screen with Lisa Kudrow, spending my birthday on a ghost train in Blackpool with her, I would have been beside myself.
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I feel like I grew up in quite a public way in front of audiences.
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What audiences see is a curated version of myself.
