Quotes

In a live setting, the audience is trapped and can't leave. That really makes the audience be with you and laugh more because you're there.

We've had erratic, weird presidents before. America's still here.

If it weren't for the fellow union members and leaders who have my back, the barons of the TV industry would happily pay me a nickel a page and spend what would have been my residuals on more caviar to put in their infinity pools.

The truth is, people love to learn.

I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.

It's the reaction I've gotten my whole life: that I learn something and try to tell people in conversation, but when I tell them, they are annoyed.

All my life I have been the guy who always says, 'Oh I think I read a thing about that and you know it's actually true about that is yada yada.' The reaction that I got when I would do that from people when I did that was not always good.

The direction of the country isn't controlled by one person on top making decisions. It's a mass movement of people making a lot of individual decisions that add up to something broader.

I find that I have a lot of suppressed energy when I'm on a plane for a long period so when I'm holding a fidget spinner, being able to play with it and just sort of run my hands over it helps me out quite a lot; it helps me relax.

I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.

I wrote for this sketch group called Olde English for about six years and we made a movie together, but we sort of stopped making sketches.

I am not an educator and I'm not a journalist. I am a comedian. But I do truly believe that the point of comedy is to make the world around one better.

Into the Breach' is a wonderful strategy game where you play that you are trying to stop an alien invasion. But of course, 'Zelda: Breath of the Wild' and 'Super Mario Odyssey' are just two of the most superlative games ever made, and so when I have time to completely lose myself in those, it's really, really a joy.

One of my favorite things about sketch comedy is doing parodies and music videos.

Wading River was a gorgeous place to grow up and I feel very lucky there was a wood by our house where I could go explore when I was a kid.

Some people are writers and don't ever want to be on camera, some people act and not write - I like writing words for myself to say.

I had the benefit of going to a really good high school on Long Island. I went to Shoreham-Wading River High School, which kind of started as an experimental public school back in the 60s and 70s. It had a bunch of teachers there with a unique teaching philosophy.

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.

There is nothing better than getting to just dig in and seriously play a video game for a six-hour flight from New York to L.A.

I want to do stories that are about the bits of cultural furniture that are sitting there that we're like, 'Oh yeah, that's been there for years! What could possibly be weird about it?' And then we're going to lift that piece of furniture and look at all the bugs scurry away.

I think people are better for having learned, even if they aren't happier.

It's one thing to make people laugh, but after a certain point, comedy is almost cheap.

Comics are regularly asked to perform for impossible rooms. They're called 'hell gigs.'

I sort of expose the truth about common misconceptions, or you know, investigate why we do certain things culturally, why we have certain traditions, and ask the question, 'is this really the best way we can be doing things?'

I loved 'Beakman's World' growing up. As much as I loved 'Bill Nye,' I always preferred 'Beakman's World' because I thought it was funnier.