Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

My dad's from there, and I have relatives there, but I don't think I've been to Chicago since I was like 9.

No one knows anything. You're going to make mistakes and you're going to do things that people think are stupid. You can't sit there and go, "I never want to make a mistake."

I can't cook. I can barely make a bowl of cereal.

I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.

I always felt better co-writing something - always co-writing. Because if I was the lead of it and it failed, then it failed on my own accord. I would say, "Well, I liked it or I screwed up. I take the hit on this one."

Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.