Julie Brown

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

It would have been very impossible to deal with this attention when I was younger. I'm thrilled with the success, but at this point I also think it's hilariously silly.

Debbie Gibson and dog food. I've always dreamed of this.

I don't just want to be successful I want to have fun.

I love Kathy Griffin, I think she's brilliant, but for me, there is a line when I go OK, that's too much.

I hate being mean. I watch those roasts on Comedy Central and they make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.

There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.

Your work is a separate thing from you. You are this person who has your friends and your life, and you have to see the separation. If you see the separation between your work and yourself it's so much easier.

I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top.