Nikki's start in comedy

Nikki first embarked on her comedy career at the age of 18, writing gags in her college dorm at the University of Kansas.

She said: "I was a freshman in college and everyone in my dorm took over the cafeteria like a study hall. I went in there and instead of studying I just looked at them, judged them and tried to think, 'What would Sarah Silverman say about these people?' I didn't know how to write jokes — I just knew the stand-ups I knew. I wrote from the perspective of my favorite stand-ups because I didn't know what my perspective was yet."