Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.

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

The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.

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.

The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.

Stand-up for me is usually a weekend thing. I go out of town and just do it.

When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff.