I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.

There are certain parts of a classic nerd's brain that can destroy that person - obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else in your life. But those are the same tools that you can use to turn everything around.

When I was younger, my parents used to say, "Trust us on this. We have more experience than you." And I was like, "Shut up, you don't know anything!" But I was an idiot. They did know more stuff because they'd experienced more things.

Worry is a misuse of your imagination.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts?

In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.