The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

If all else fails, you can always be a pro.

Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.

There's such an aggressively apolitical movement in the US that anything that smells of being political - even the term "political" is so ridiculous, when you think about it. The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that's what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.

Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

We get so much information during the day that doesn't really tell us anything.