...and went to Rutgers College in New Brunswick, NJ. I loved dorm life. Nobody teased me!! I had friends!! Anyway, my freshman year we had this amazing group of people living together. At holiday time we did “secret santas.” We were a very creative group, so everyday we would get these notes telling us what to do to get our prize. One day, my note said that I had to do a stand-up comedy show in the lounge on my floor, using our dorm-mates as material. Well, I took the whole day off from classes and wrote jokes about everyone who lived on my floor. I was so nervous, but I killed. I got a high from doing that that I had never had from doing anything else. I started doing open mics in NYC and did a couple of local gigs. I wasn’t even old enough to drink in these clubs. I realized that I was very young and I wanted to graduate college, so I concentrated on doing that (still doing gigs every now and then), and graduated with a music degree in 1984.