You're listening to Comedy Central.

Please welcome Ryan O'Connell.

Welcome.

Hi.

How you doing, Ryan?

I'm good. Thank you for having me.

Welcome to the show and congratulations on your show.

First and foremost, thank you. Thank you.

Yeah, it's a journey that you have been on that I don't think anyone would have predicted,

including yourself because you first wrote about your life and it was meant to just be, you know, a paperback and you're going to get the story out there

and all of a sudden it blows up and Jim Parsons sees the story and he goes, I love this.

We should make it into a TV show and that's what you've done.

You've written a story about your life and you've based it on a true story.

Your life is a disabled person who is also gay and it's one of the funniest premises ever because you come out as gay

but then you're afraid to come out to your friends as disabled.

That's pretty wild.

I know, usually it's flipped the other way, right?

Yeah, but I come from a very gay family so being gay was like, NBD for me.

Like, I just also like, what closet is this bitch going to hide in?

So, to me, I grew up with a mile case of cerebral palsy and like no one understood what cerebral palsy was.

Like, because you know, it looks different, everybody you can dress it out and you can dress it down.

So I never really related to it and so when I got hit by a car when I was 20 years old,

...