With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

I can't not put humor in a book.

I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it - which is a just incredibly hilarious thing for me to say because for many, many years I was the guy whose only contribution to any conversation was, 'There was a funny 'Simpson's' joke about that.'

I'd like to do a romantic comedy like 'Notting Hill,' which is one of my favorite movies.

We're used to a story in modern terms as an information delivery device. Certainly on television and even with the studio films, there's really only one note that you get, and that's clarity. And people will sacrifice everything for clarity. They'll sacrifice the joke. They'll sacrifice the moment, or the romance.