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You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
Humor is healing.
I'm not big on game shows.
I'm totally, totally into old Vegas.
My whole life, I've been telling jokes.
It's fun to play people who are flawed.
I became a stand-up because that was my survival.
I am so fascinated and taken by the Golden Knights.
I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.
Anyone can cook but only the fearless can be great.
I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.
It's all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle.
There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.
There is the real person I am, and there is the stage persona.
The night I won the Emmy, I probably cried for three hours on and off.
I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.
I think as any artist you always want to grow; you always want to get better.
I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.
People who are bipolar, they kind of latch onto things that are fanatical sometimes.
You have a bad day at the office, four people know. You suck in a movie, everyone knows.
Standup is really the only thing in the entertainment business that you do totally alone.
Actually, I have my own charity that I started that helps supplement families with terminal children.
I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.
We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list.
I don't think we're politically correct when we're private. I don't know what 'politically correct' means.
Men and women are like cats and dogs. I've learned more about myself from women. My comedy is based on this.
My act is a little raunchy. When people come to my club, I have to warn them it isn't Robert from 'Raymond.'
I come from the world of improv; I love any show or any vehicle that gives me an opportunity to be in the moment.
I've always wanted to play a coach in a movie, just to be the captain of anything in the pirate ship of my bathtub.
I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.
I was a strange kid. I never really fit in; I was never comfortable in my own skin because I was a giant kid with no athletic ability.
I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.
Athletics are not my wheelhouse because sports were mean to this uncoordinated kid growing up, a 6-foot-2 14-year-old who never could do a layup.
It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.
I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going.
Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.
But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.
In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really don't always have it down. Your continue to learn, you continue to risk, and I really love it.
I'm out about my misogyny. Most men are misogynists, and most women are feminists. I work with a lot of women. They have their finger on the pulse of things. But women do things to other women that men would never do to other men.
I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.
Without having some kind of parameters placed on a coach, the reality is they could all have a different vision of what a kid's limit is in the heat, ... The policy itself that was adopted by the OSAA executive board gives the coaches some parameters as to how to structure their practices and guidelines to follow.
I was a 6-foot-tall 13-year-old who couldn't play basketball. I moved around all the time as a kid, and at each new school, the coach would say, 'He's the great white hope' - but I couldn't play ball. So my thing was jokes and characters and making fun of myself and being the 6-foot-9 Jewish guy. That was my way into show business.
I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going. I love theater and I think doing a sitcom in front of a live audience is the closest you can get to theater, and it's really the best mix of like standup and theater, is really a sitcom. I started as a standup and I still continue to do that as well, so I think I'm just a TV guy and happy for it. I think my movie career is kind of like my social life, I'm picky and not in demand. So it perhaps is working out.
