America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.

I need a healthy injection of cynicism right now.

It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.