The comedian Lewis Black, known for his abrasive, expletive-laden style of stand-up, appears regularly on late night talk shows and has released 12 comedy albums. His latest, “Lewis Black — Black to the Future,” was released last fall.

Mr. Black travels the country doing as many as 200 shows a year, so he has become obsessed with finding direct flights — “All I care about are direct flights. My life is devoted to direct flights” — and even arranges his travel so that he’s leaving his New York apartment to get to Newark airport at low-traffic times. “Between 11 and 12 in the afternoon, that’s the window. Plus, usually, traffic in the airport, too, has gone down at that point.”

When on the road, he also spends considerable time on the tour bus. “If I have two weeks back-to-back out west, or you know, in the middle of the country, then it makes sense that I don’t get off the bus. So I’ll spend two or three days on the bus traveling to the next set of shows.” He’s written most of his three books on buses in between shows and recommends it for anyone trying to write. “Yeah, but on a tour bus. A Greyhound, it’s not going to happen. You’re going to kill yourself after 12 hours.”