I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

Comedy was not necessarily the thing that I thought it would be, but I was searching for something that felt scary to me.

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

I don't think comedy will ever die.

I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.

Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.

'Pro Wrestlers vs. Zombies' is a comedy. It was fun. You just don't take it serious. You just go there, get your popcorn, and sit down.

Comedy can be quite all consuming at times, and if you're not careful you end up doing a tour, then a DVD, then another tour then a DVD. Suddenly the years have just flown by.

Comedy always benefits from different points of view and even tension. It can never be satisfied.

But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.

Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take the reality and exaggerate it.

I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater wherever they would let me. Finally, I moved out here to Los Angeles and got on a show.

I watch a lot of U.S. comedy, shows such as 'Eastbound & Down' and 'Veep.' I love Julia Louis-Dreyfus and her character in that show.

I've always felt that there's a lot of similarity between doing a comedy and doing a scary movie because jokes and scares are all about timing. If you give the punch line too early or too late, the joke falls flat. And it's the same with a scare.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

I loved George Carlin... I used to sit in front of the TV and watch the HBO comedy specials. I loved those comedy specials.

Where my comedy really solidified was when Bush was elected. I couldn't understand how craven and crass he was, and how dumb other people were for electing him.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

Hard comedy goes for the fences. It's also what you might call take-a-risk comedy because if you don't hit a home run, you might strike out. It's either a belly laugh or it's no go and no show.