The big-budget film, nabbing an A- CinemaScore, is skewing heavily male so far.

The comic, podcast host and character actor reflects on his complex youth that led him to comedy, his rollercoaster career (he once contemplated suicide in the same garage to which a U.S. president later trekked to see him), and the Critics’ Choice and SAG award noms for his first major acting gig in which he's not playing a version of himself.