To perform live, to get that thrill of the audience reaction is great. There is no equivalent of watching someone stand up and clap on the Internet.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

My family is very New Yorker.

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.

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

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.'

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

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.

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

I think that comedy is a great unifier.

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

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.'

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

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.

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.

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

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.