"It's a response that so many people have brought to bear over the past, you know, hundred years of us kind of marking what culture does in times of stress and of debilitating depression. And we see people rising up with great acts of beauty. So I feel like comics really do that. We create moments that lift spirits. And when you lift a spirit and that spirit moves away from you and goes to the next moment, you don't know what spirits they're going to lift."