Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

I'm just trying to be truthful and collaborate with people who have interesting things to say.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

I think the story should always determine the visual approach. There are situations where you want things to feel alive and like life, and there are situations that should have some magic and the separation with the grain.

My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there.

I did get good enough to get on HBO's Young Comedians Special, but I certainly wasn't the person who got launched off of HBO's Young Comedians Special. That would be Ray Romano that year. I had some semi-intelligent jokes, but when people would see me, they would think, "Oh, that's a good writer." No one would ever have said, "Oh, that's a good performer."