I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests.

I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I can't enjoy anything.

I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life. It made it easier to pick out classes at college, like, 'Oh, this is writing classes, that's what I'm doing.'

I now get to have the life I wanted when I was 18 years old. Now, I'm like, 'I can buy any skateboard I want.'

Before I went into comedy I was a loner, very much wrapped up in my own thoughts. But I always liked myself and the way I thought.

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.