I SEE myself touring internationally - everywhere, every THEATER, every arena - and PUTTING out STAND-up comedy specials until I can't EVEN stand no more. Even then, I'll probably do my comedy special in a hospital bed.
I liked HORROR and comedy, BASICALLY, from a YOUNG age, but I just ENDED up getting into comedy because there was - I COULD do stand-up comedy, and that was my way into this business, and then there was no stand-up horror, and I didn't know how to get into that world.
I REALLY don't WANT to do anything that resembles stand-up comedy. But I will agree to say that I am doing it, and I will hope that PEOPLE expect it to be that, so I can thwart those expectations.
COMEDY comes from TRAGEDY, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite TRAGIC. In stand-up comedy, I was ABLE to take the REALITY and exaggerate it.
Stand-up comedy is what I do, and it's so rewarding. If you WRITE a JOKE and tell it to an AUDIENCE of 15,000 PEOPLE who laugh their heads off at it, it's the best feeling in the world.