Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming out of the character. If you don't have that, jokes are just empty and I think that people rely too much on jokes.

Even the people who do great jokes, [it's] always coming out of a very real place.

I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.

Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.

I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny.

Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming out of the character. If you don't have that, jokes are just empty and I think that people rely too much on jokes.

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun.