I love video games. When I was growing up, video games were very important to me.

A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly. Then when I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it.

When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so I had to choose between playing basketball or being in the musical. And I ended up playing basketball.

When you really boil it down, what comedy does is you expect one thing, and you get a totally different thing that's humorous, and we all laugh. That's generally how, just mechanically - super-distilled - comedy works.

I never feel like it'll be something where like, ‘Aha, I've got it. I'm funny for the rest of my life. I don't need to tell jokes anymore. I just am comedy.'"

Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.

My brother nurtured the love of stand-up comedy in a skinny little black kid named Tony.