I was definitely prepared for it to be slower, and it has not worked out that way in any shape or form. I'm grateful as a comedian, and slightly demoralized, occasionally, as a human being - those two things are always very different.

It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.

We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.

You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.

You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'

When you see people say crazy things on our show, they mean this stuff,and that's easy to forget: They're not joking.