“Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.”

“Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.”

“Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare!”

“Everyone's heard the same joke a million times and knows the setups. They are tired of the mass-marketed entertainment served on the networks.”

“I don't have a big hang-up about my body.”

“I don't really know, I was thinking about that the other day that there aren't a lot of younger up and comers that I'm that interested in, in the comedy world. Everyone seems to be trying to play it safe.”

“I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.”

“I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee.”

“I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.”

“I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.”

“I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.”

“In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I'd like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. That would be fantastic. If Herman Cain became president, there'd be a certain sort of morbid curiosity for me.”

“My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.”

“Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.”

“Nothing impresses the ladies like a clean, pressed pair of khakis and a large pattern shirt featuring either classic cars, mojitos or men playing golf.”

“Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it.”

“Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny, 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh, that don't make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.”

“The idea of trust-fund guys who live in Brooklyn in their 30s is really interesting to me. There's a time and a place where that kind of bohemian lifestyle is appropriate, soon after college, in your 20s. But there are people still living that many years later; they haven't evolved to the next phase.”

“The idea that everyone's opinion is valuable is sometimes up for question.”

“There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.”

“There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.”

“There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.”

“There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.”

“Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.”

“When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.”

“When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks... hardcore... like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.”