text:  From WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Tanya Mosley with Fresh Air. Today, comedian Ian Carmel. As a comedy writer for shows like The Late Late Show with James Corden, Ian spent most of his life making fun of his weight, starting at a very young age. Being a kid is terrifying. And if you can be the funny fat kid, at least that's a role. To me, that was better than being the fat kid who wasn't funny, you know, who was being sad over in the corner, even if that was how I was actually feeling a lot of the time.