You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

You don't need people’s opinion on a fact. You might as well have a poll asking: ‘Which number is bigger, 15 or 5?’ or ‘Do owls exist?’ or ‘Are there hats?'

Americans just don't understand dry wit.

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

I think the best analogy for where we are right now is that America is Elvis Presley -- the most beautiful, talented, rebellious nation in the history of Earth. And now, you're in your Vegas years. You've squeezed yourself into a white jumpsuit, you're wheezing your way through 'Love Me Tender' and you might be about to pass away bloated on the toilet. But you're still the King.

Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.