I don't sleep too late.

I'm a very casual person.

My family is very New Yorker.

I'm not a disciplined person.

I was never really a traveler.

I was really a very antisocial child.

I would love to be on a sitcom or on Broadway.

I always considered song parody kind of cheap.

It's surprising how much hate mail I don't get.

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

I was always interested in comedy and pop culture.

Well, the first restaurant I worked in was Hooters.

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

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

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

I'm a big show queen to begin with. I think in show tunes.

I got a fan letter from Hillary Clinton, which was insane.

I'm such a huge fan of all this material that I'm spoofing.

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

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

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

I'm just a boy with a dream from Queens. Just a queen from Queens.

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

I have to follow my instincts when I get an idea like 'Desperate Cheeto.'

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

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

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

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

I think that I did inherit a very expressive face from my mother and my grandmother.

I need Netflix to sort of wisen up and give me a staff and a budget, that would be fun.

Music in general, but really musical theater has always been a real coping mechanism for me.

I love to be silly as often as possible. I try to maintain a level of that in all that I do.

TV, that's the ultimate goal. I hope to bring what I am doing now to a weekly television format.

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

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

My father was always in bands. He played drums and could sing. And my grandfather was a band leader.

Whatever is going on in the news and whoever is in the spotlight is up for grabs and fodder for satire.

I don't use an alarm, though sometimes Alexa wakes me, especially if I have to get up at a certain time.

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.

Comedy illuminates. And it unifies people, it's not as polarizing as shows with specific political agendas.

You have to be careful with parodies. I don't like when they're too obvious, 'cause it can be a little cheap.

I feel a responsibility to my fan base. But it's great. I'm most fulfilled and happy when I'm being creative.

I don't like gyms, but I try to get my heart rate up once a day. I don't do long workouts because it's boring.

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

I did have a thing for mazes. When I was a kid, I remember drawing little mazes constantly and puzzles. I loved that.

I think kind of what you see in the videos is true to me, if not maybe a slightly heightened version of my real self.

I heard from Stephen Sondheim, who has become a great supporter of mine. There was no one bigger when I was growing up.

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

I'm not really that political and I love the idea of a sitcom. But a lot of people want me to become the next Jon Stewart.

The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you can get away with it.

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