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.

As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.

Mainstream culture is like your mom: It's always a little late to catch on and gets easily confused by technology, but it means well.

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.

For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.

When comedians get successful, the fans that they have aren't the fans they would hang out with. I don't have that problem.

There's something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy.