I was just trying to blend the standup that I do almost with like the visual sketch stuff that I did on "Saturday Night Live." And so in terms of how elastic in the world is, we'll see what we can get away with [in John Mulaney show].

If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.

I like that idea that what I do might be mainstream. Might be.

It's important to remember that life is a joke and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.

Understudies don't normally get invited to openings.

I'm a very straightforward person. But that's fine for a comedian. Because a lot of times you're talking about everyone else.

Why do people shush animals? Theyve never spoken