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I tend to play sort of douchey.
I got my SAG card doing commercials.
The immediacy of public interaction is just unbeatable.
Although I'm a comedian, I'm also an amateur survivalist.
Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.
It's always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere.
I have what I guess is medically known as a farting problem.
Sometimes shows suffer from having many cooks in the kitchen.
Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.
What business would judged on the first week that it's in business?
My experience in TV is that it takes time for shows to find their way.
Doing radio commercials was how I was really able to leave my day job.
You want to be gentle with the people you're working with if you know them.
In L.A., you really are in your car all day alone, and there's very little public life.
There's nothing better for hosting a show than a bunch of people daytime-whiskey drunk.
It's the independent movies. Most of these people never even got a wrap party on their movie.
I like an otter. I like a sea lion. I like a walrus. That's my favorite version of a sea creature.
The more variance I have in my days, the more exciting each thing is and the more I enjoy doing it.
I'm really into pandas right now. They're really scratching an itch for me. They're so goddamn cute.
I wish I was a cool guy and could drink coffee black, but I put almond milk and raw cane sugar in it.
I do a lot of eavesdropping. That's one of the things I miss about New York: just checking people out.
It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.
I like to think that the stuff I do is oftentimes collaborative, so to have other people in it felt natural.
Meeting someone you admire, and then that person's like, 'I'm a fan of your work' - it's a really neat feeling.
My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.
I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.
When you start out, it sometimes feels like you're fighting audiences every night just to prove that you're funny.
I speak some Spanish. I would love to go make a movie in Spanish. I'd love to be in an Almodovar movie or an Inarritu.
My friends and family always thought I was pretty funny, but I don't know if they thought I was get-my-own-show funny.
Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A.
I feel like we have so many different ways to express ourselves now, and I relish, I feel very lucky to be doing comedy.
I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it.
I can't play video games or games on my phone because I'll go into a deep vortex, and no one will hear from me for weeks.
When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.
A job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.
Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.
I think that the web and its various facets are incredibly useful in just building a fan base and getting your chops better.
I miss the New York bagel but miss the New York bialy even more. It's a great compromise of bagel feeling with less dough stuffing.
I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to do all this with my friends.
Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense.
I've decided to just keep doing Oh, Hello, where I play an older man who thinks he's very cultured. That clearly has not gone away.
I was, like, a history major, and I minored in art and Spanish, but I found myself gravitating toward media studies as time went on.
I would be psyched to get a phone call from Al Sharpton. I need to find out who does his hair. It's beautiful. It's a gorgeous mane.
You get to have some bigger comedic moments with some very real dramatic stuff. All that in one makes for a fulfilling artistic job.
There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.
In real life, you care about other people, but at the end of the day you're like, "I'm acting upon whatever it is that I want or need."
The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.
I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.
Really, more than anything, The 2000 Year Old Man is a huge influence on all of our comedy, but specifically the live version of Oh, Hello.
I'm sure there are people who say like, "I was wearing weird emo eyeliner," but there's something pretty embarrassing about the jazz phase.