Thanksgiving, you know - Thanksgiving - it's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is we overeat.

That's why when I send a postcard I quiz people. "Hey, did you get that postcard?" "Yeah, yeah yeah." "Well what'd I say?" "Uh, you were havin-" "I was in jail"

I've been doing stand-up for so long, I think 19 years, that I love topics I can also expand on. Once I identify a topic like, say, seafood, which is a big one right now, it's like there are different kinds of tangents I can go on to build a larger chunk.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

I grew up 45 minutes outside of Chicago.

The idea of being a practicing Catholic, it's - for me, it's like - I need a lot of practice, you know what I mean?

My faith is very personal. It's not something that I want to project on other people.