Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.

I prefer to linger on the periphery before making a commitment.

I don't remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it's out there so that I can be fresh again.

I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

There's absolutely no way that something I do on my own is going to be seen in Malaysia.

Instead of three networks you have three hundred or three thousand. Audiences are inundated with programming, and that sometimes gives them a sense of petulant entitlement.

I have no idea how it got so big. I was just trying to find something to do while I was living in Boulder, Colorado, which isn't really a funny town. There are a lot of smart people there, but comedy isn't at the forefront of their minds.