I'm much more interested in making people laugh than getting applause breaks.

Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides.

My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.

It's not as if ten years ago, we were like, 'I wish I could take low quality photos of my dessert.'

I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.

Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.

There was [ in New York] - some of it was this perception of the Midwest that I realized in this multicultural city that - and I don't think it's as true as it was - but everyone was kind of like, what, are you Jewish? Are you Italian? What are you? You know, are you black? Are you da-da-da? Are you Puerto Rican? And so I ended up - my ethnic identity was Midwestern, was white bread. And so it informed a lot of my stand-up.