If I had posted my first video a week later, I don't know if it would have spread like it did. That's why, with everything I do, I try to enjoy the making of it instead of worrying about the release and reception.

The thing is, I always thought I could do stand-up, and so I just stayed focused on the belief that I could succeed.

Being famous is complete luck, and that's something you can't bank on.

I'm not as incredibly prolific as Louis C. K., and I'm definitely not doing a completely brand-new hour probably by the beginning of the tour.

Even in movies like 'Superbad,' they're all lovable kids.

I'm grateful for every stupid mistake and dumb joke I tried to make.

I love Tim Minchin, Bill Bailey, and Hans Teeuwen, and I'm trying to synthesise elements of theatre into my show a little bit more.

Not enough comedy makes you feel something.

I would say don't take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We're very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you, 'Liquidize your assets; buy Powerball tickets - it works!'

I became good friends with Jack Whitehall. I think he's great, such a great dude, and really funny.

There's tons of dudes - like David O'Doherty, Tim Key, and Alex Horne - I made a lot of friends with people who are really incredible comics.

If I was confronted with some 20-year-old American hotshot, I'd hate him.

You can give poor people this royal wedding to watch and make them feel good about themselves, or you can give them something useful like, I don't know... a toaster.

Basically, I don't like to tweet stuff about my life. I only like to tweet jokes.

I always think of myself as a comedy feeder type person, and that feeder lets themselves get out of your comfort zone as opposed to straight stand up; that feels like honing one skill, like honing one point of view.

I enjoy stand up so much because I take time off, and then I'll be excited to go back to it.

The strength of comedy is I don't have to answer to anybody, but sometimes you want to learn from other people and see your ideas strengthen by other people.

I just have a problem with youth culture.

I didn't want to bash young people. I don't want to bash a kid for dreaming or wanting something or being slightly ambitious - that's not the problem. The actual problem is with the culture surrounding him.

With 'Words, Words, Words,' that show was me experimenting with something, and then there was a clear direction for me.

A few people know me, and the few people that do know me only know me because they dig my stuff.

I just look at Miley Cyrus, and I'm like, 'Great, you've doubled your audience. But you've also doubled the number of people that hate you, and doesn't that hurt?' It takes a crazy person not to be affected by that.

Since I got an audience before I even had a comic voice, my material that really wasn't worthy of an audience somehow got it, slightly unfairly.

I don't really care about capitalizing on momentum.

I'd much rather wait till my material is up to par, in my opinion, than rush it just so I can stay in the limelight a little longer.

A lot of my fans are really young and seem slightly unsure and nervous about things. Hopefully for young people watching my show, it comes away that I'm pretty weird up there.

I'm clearly doing what I want. I hope kids can see my act and feel like they can be slightly more comfortable in their own skin because I'm being so ridiculously comfortable in mine. I'm not that comfortable in my skin the moment I walk offstage. But I try to project that while I'm on it.

I was being called a shock comic. I hated that. It's so cheap and stupid.

I can talk to more persuadable voters in a week on 'The Five' than I could at CNN in a year, so it's worked out fine.

You don't hear much crosstalk on 'The Five.' When you try to make a point, the other person will back off.

If I never hear of Kim Kardashian and Casey Anthony again, it would make my entire day.

My pop culture ended somewhere north of Elvis but not too far.

We know that in the Muslim communities around the world, they do not like us. They recruit people from poor areas and turn them into terrorists.

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

As a survivor, you learn how to talk fast, cut deals, lie when you have to - perfect training to be a politician, you know?

Life is a series of chapters, and one leads to another to another to another, and God knows what it is.

When I came to faith, I was on pro-choice boards, and I dropped off of those because you couldn't read the Bible and be pro-choice.

I always say if anybody is running for president, for office, I always take them seriously.

Always taken Donald Trump seriously. I think people have underestimated him.

Trump is going to be around a while.

The fact of the matter, it's that Trump is getting money from blue-collar workers who send him checks for $250. Why? Who is Donald Trump? It's not who he is, it's who he isn't. Not what he is for, what he is against - that is, everything Washington is doing.

The questions I get invariably focus on Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity. It's no secret Hannity is conservative, and O'Reilly certainly is not a liberal. Beck goes well beyond conservatism to some very strange places.

When anyone in Washington asks for a favor, no matter how little the favor means to you, act pained and get as much as you can in exchange - even if the person asking is the president of the United States.

Every time I think that political analysts and writers will finally recognize that most of them don't understand much about political polls, they prove me wrong. They don't know how to read them; they don't understand the importance of cross tabs within a given poll, and they don't know how to analyze them.

Most voters assume because these political 'pros' are on TV or write for national papers, they know politics. Sadly, most don't have a clue.

What I have learned over hundreds of campaigns is if you have lost voters who have supported you in the past, you can get them back. If you never had them, it is a very difficult sell.

In the black community, Trump's history of racial discrimination is deeply embedded.

The hardest-hit taxpayers in our disgraceful tax system are those folks who pack Trump's rallies, especially in hard-hit Rust Belt states like Ohio and Michigan.

Trump has predicated his whole campaign on the unfairness of the playing field. Big corporations, rich donors, big media, and trade deals that punish the little guy.

It is Trump who plays with the tax code to pay no taxes; it is Trump whose Trump-brand products are made overseas by cheap labor; it is Trump who hires undocumented workers from Poland to work on his projects, then refuses to pay them minimum wages.