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.

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Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to UNWIND and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, OFTEN SEVERAL shows in a night.

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If you are doing stand-up COMEDY, you have to be CONFIDENT in what you are doing. That doesn't MEAN just because you are confident you are FUNNY.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I've been performing stand-up comedy for TEN YEARS, it's what I love and will ALWAYS do.

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