That's the downside of total creative control: You're isolated and after a while you can lose a little perspective. But I've taught myself not to listen to my own self-doubt.

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.

As long as there are headlines I'll have material.

I am very proud to be a Jew.

I really wasn't raised with much religion. I mean we practice kind of the basic tradition, but for me it was always more of a cultural thing and that's a part of me and my ancestry that I always loved. I mean, I think that a lot of my humor is 'Jewish humor' at its root. And so culturally I love that part of myself.

I was always interested in being funny and amusing and creating art and comedy.

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.

Anyone who does social media, YouTube, Internet content will tell you it can be extremely isolating.

I used to take my little Disney figurines and turn them into stop-motion animation.

There's not one Yiddish word that is not perfectly funny.

It was really my grandmother who was the biggest influence because she'd talk back to the celebrities and politicians on TV. She was a combination of Joan Rivers, Elaine Stritch, Betty White, and Bea Arthur rolled into one.

My father was Donald Trump, and my mother was Hillary Clinton, and my grandmother was Nancy Pelosi. And I was - I wanna say, Mike Pence, 'cause he's the gayest one.

If I have a passion for anything, it's more the truth than politics, and I think that's what got me interested in comedy in the first place, because the best comedy is the truth. People recognize that.

I'm not a disciplined person.

I'm not a political pundit by any means.

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.

What I love is that I'm hearing from people on the left and people on the right that I've given them something to laugh at.

My mom is probably my biggest fan.

I did a lot of children's theater in Miami Shores. My base musical theater training happened there.

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

Going after people for their politics is not necessarily what I do.

I always wanted to tour with a band.

I was always interested in comedy and pop culture.

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

I was never really a traveler.

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

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 a human person, so I do have some sort of compassion for even the people I'm mocking. But at the end of the day, I'm the little guy taking on the big guy. That to me is not bullying. That's satire.

Into the Woods,' 'Sweeney Todd' - those were my religion.

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 guess to long story short it, I was really just working day jobs when I moved to New York and trying to pay the bills, working in restaurants and as a receptionist, and at one of those reception jobs, I just got so bored, I started a blog, honing my writing skills a little bit.

My mother was majorly into musical theatre - that's how this happened. That's how I became the gayest person in the world.

My parents always had a Christmas tree in the house and I was put in ballet at a very young age. So every year I would be in 'The Nutcracker.'

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

As far as inspiration, the most I got from YouTube was that I'm kind of self-taught by watching YouTube tutorials on how to use Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Pro. I just taught myself enough to produce the content that I had in my head.

I think that comedy is a great unifier.

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

It's amazing that my career took off from my living room. It's an amazing time when everyone has a platform and everyone has the ability to get where they're going without the middle-man.

I mean, I'm from the Joan Rivers, Don Rickles kind of old-school comedy in that nothing is off the table, certainly not in politics. So, I think if you can find something to laugh at, that's got people kind of on edge, or, you know, stressed out, I think you gotta go for it.

I don't have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.

I hear from people all the time from all sides of the aisle, and I hear from people strangely enough who say, 'I don't agree with you politically... But I love your videos. They make me laugh.'

Comedy is math, music is math, and editing is, so I think those all work together.

The fact that I am able to put myself out there in this age of social media and YouTube is really a gift to someone who never felt like I fit into any particular mold. One of the reasons people are responding to it is because it is coming from a pure place.

My family is very New Yorker.

Sondheim's work especially, and musical theater like that, just spoke to me so much and taught me so many lessons.

There's something really powerful about comedy. When the little guy, the comedian, punches up towards the big guy, or Trump, exposing him, calling out the emperor for having no clothes, that's really important.

Mom would go to bed at night and pray that God would make her Bernadette Peters.

I had a quick family. Very witty. I learned my rhythm from that.

My father was Donald Trump in many ways. His narcissism. I grew up with that generation of guys from New York, a generation of New York phony snake-oil-salesmen kind of energy.

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.