Erik Griffin

Women are hilarious.

Workaholics' seems like it's doing wonders for my career.

I don't believe anything is truly off limits, but as a performer, one has to know that people might be offended, and there are consequences.

New York is great because it's such a cross-section of the world, and when you're used to people being shoulder-to-shoulder all the time - in the street, on the train - you become a people person. People are very open to hearing a lot of different perspectives, and they aren't as sensitive.

I look stupid without a mustache.

I love doing stand-up, and the more you do outside of stand-up to raise your profile, the better your stand-up becomes in terms of the quality of gigs.

I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wanted to be on the road. It's a lonely existence, but it is what it is.

We need more female voices to come out there and do comedy.

Most of the time, the truth is ugly and in your face! My observational brand of humor is very much all in your face!

My inspiration to do comedy came from many places. Saturday mornings, I would watch Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis movies. I later got into watching stand-ups like Eddie Murphy, who was my main inspiration.

Sometimes comedy can be, like, negative and just the worst parts of ourselves coming out.

It's not like every male comic you meet is funny. Like, a lot of them are not funny.