If I could just get over my issues of wanting people to like me.

We share plates [with Jordan Peele], and we also very often will sit in the corner and kind of speak in our own language.

Ricky Gervais changed our lives. And Mitch Hedberg, who we're like, "Oh, that's funny to me on a level I don't think I understand. But I'm clearly pleased by it beyond something that my brain's figured out." He was amazing.

You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

Like every human we have to categorize ourselves, so you kind of start to build a mythos 'cause I had no information about [ biological mother]. So you have to build a mythos around yourself. And so my mythos included me not being wanted or me being a wretched person, which is just great fertilizer for comedy.

I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.

There is no top. You are never going to reach the top if you go for success. That way lies madness.