My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time.

What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets.

I look at every book as a self-help book.

Let's be honest, this is a consumer based economy in America. That's all we manufacture here is need and appetite. We are the world's mouth. They make things in other countries, and they're like, 'Send it to America; they'll eat it.'

Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.

I'm a guy that after having experience in radio and stuff, if I can trust the people I'm working with, I get a real thrill with working with other people who are good at what they do.

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.