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

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

I've definitely had my hard partying moments. I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.

I'm an actor. I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don't really care about jokes either. I tire of jokes.

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

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.

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.