My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance.

Everybody should care about facts. That is something all of us should agree on.

Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.

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

I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

Americans just don't understand dry wit.