The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.

I would hate to meet myself at 15.

Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents.

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

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

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.

In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.