When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
Stand-up comedy is a really lonely profession: you 'perform for 2000 people, then you go to a hotel room by yourself and stare at a wall.
Doing a scene by yourself is scarier - you know you don't have other people to fall back on.
Standup is really the only thing in the entertainment business that you do totally alone.
When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.
Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.
In 1993, I premiered my solo piece 'Hysterical Blindness and Other Southern Tragedies That Have Plagued My Life So Far' at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre. It then went to New York and ran for several months Off-Broadway.
I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' and where I played all the parts except for Juliet.
Monologues are fun.
