Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.

I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.

I have been recording every single one of my shows since 1994. Every single joke I've ever done is on a hard drive. I can tell you when I wrote every joke I wrote. I can tell you the first time I said it, when I made it different, when I made it better.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.