I don't know if the podcast as a medium will ever have the cultural impact that TV and movies do. It may never be super-mainstream.

All television is an advertisement - that's why it exists. It wasn't the art-form first and then the commerce - it was that they could put on entertainment long enough to distract people into looking at products. It's for focusing people on advertising and separating you from money in some way. Some people forget that. The side product is that we get some great eye candy. TV is the best it has ever been right now. I don't have a problem with that since it's what keep us employed.

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

Be offended by everything or be offended by nothing.

The difference being that a nerd would wear a D&D shirt because he loves D&D while a hipster would wear a D&D shirt because it's ridiculous that he is wearing a D&D shirt.

If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.

When you look at your freelance career, it's really like a mall. And if you look at a mall, it's a self-contained system that has a flow and logic to it. You'll probably have one or two really bigger jobs, those are like your anchor stores.