I always was a funny guy, the class clown. I had a very funny dad and an extremely funny grandmother.

It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.

I'm really into everything. Something I've been asked throughout the years I've done the show is, "What kind of music are you into?" I find that to be a bizarre question, because it implies there are people out there that are only into one specific kind of music. But I think I, like most people, enjoy a wide variety of music.

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.

For the people who don't know, my character could described, in a nutshell, as the bar dumb-dumb.

Starting out, I bet I didn't get a lot of parts because of my strange voice. I'm not consciously thinking, 'Hey, sound like a squeaky dog toy mixed with a bagful of rusty nails.' It's just what my voice has done.