I remember when I was working at Sprint, I'd work on my birthday, New Year's Day, and even Christmas Eve. I'm just used to working on my birthday, so I'll be celebrating it afterward.
For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.
I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.
My dad was a bartender that worked banquets. So that meant holidays, weekends, nights.
This is what footballers are used to. You're used to playing matches throughout the Christmas period so for us it doesn't feel weird. We're working on Christmas Day and we've always done it.
Certainly, nothing would stop me coming home for Christmas, if I can. But I've worked a lot in theatre, and in theatre in New York, we work Christmas Day a lot of the time as well.
I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.
I make a special point of working on Thanksgiving Day. I have friends I go out with but I even make it plain to them. The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.
My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.
