Comedy writer Ian Karmel 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,” Karmel says. “To me, that was better than being the fat kid who wasn’t funny, who’s being sad over in the corner, even if that was how I was actually feeling a lot of the time.” For Karmel, the jokes and insults didn’t stop with adolescence.