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

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I think I'm just a summer fling that people will soon forget.

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.'

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