The mainstream needs Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell. The mainstream needs RuPaul.
I grew up worshipping Pee-wee Herman.
I don't want to do something that's watered down. I don't want to take what I'm known for and dilute it.
People going off on politics on Grindr is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. That's an immediate sign to run in the other direction.
When I came out to my parents, I knew that they knew. My father was like, 'Are you sure?' I literally said, 'You took me to see Barbra Streisand at Madison Square Garden.'
Saying gay people shouldn't be the punchline is basically saying don't make people the punch line, which I think is ridiculous. The whole point of comedy is, on some level, to make fun of ourselves and put everything into an absurdist context.