I don't care if I tell that story and John Roderick gets up afterward and yells, 'I hope you enjoyed the white privilege, mortality comedy of John Hodgman!' That's me!" I'm going to play a sad Handsome Family song at the end and I guarantee you everyone is going to love it because, sometimes, you need a grown man or woman to tell you what you like.

I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising.

The fact is I'm very self-similar.

I never stopped feeling abject terror until I got on television and went on a national ad campaign and realized, "I will be able to feed my children. I have somehow averted the destiny that awaited me, which is endless, crippling debt forever."

Only the nerds will save the earth.

As a live stand-up comedy performer, I have the benefit of choosing real entrance music.

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.