You need to know what doesn't work to know what works. It's especially true in improv and stand-up.

I love pizza so much, I would marry pizza, but it would just be an elaborate ploy to eat her whole family at the reception.

Sometimes when my fans come up to me, they think it's going to be entertaining, like I'm going to tell jokes or do bits, and then instead of that I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, "This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else." I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them.

You've got to remember that improvisers are writers and actors and directors all simultaneously. That's what's happening in real time because you're writing on your feet, and you are acting out the words and you are directing what the staging is. You're deciding what staging is.

I struggled with that notion early in my career. 'I know this is funny but nobody is laughing.' This thought occurred for years.

Sometimes, when you want to be in a place so badly, you'll do anything.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.