If the crowd is full of assholes, it's no fun. If the crowd is cool, it's great.

I feel the acting conservatory taught me how to be a working actor in the 1700s. We learned stuff like 'to the back of the auditorium, to the back of the auditorium' and the liquid "u." 'The payment is duuue on Tuuuesday.' I also learned how to fence. If anything, when I moved to Los Angeles, I didn't fit in, in any way. I had to do comedy, because I was talking so pretentiously.

Its consistency of what comedy can do and what comedy can be.Growing up with that show [The Simpsons] shaped my worldview.

I just grew up with it [The Simpsons]. The first season came on when I was 5, 6 years old, and the show evolved as I was growing up and got funnier and funnier and, by the time I was in 12th grade, they were at their funniest.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

When I'm watching South Park I don't think it's written by neo-Nazis. They know exactly what they're doing.

I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.