My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.

I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness.

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

I was a screenwriting major in college, and really wanted to do that after I graduated, but there are no job listings for that, as we all know. I had many classmates that made it in the business, but stand-up comedy was my way in, and my first film 'Sleepwalk with Me' was based on those autobiographical experiences.

Gillian [Jacobs] is brilliant, and it was Lena Dunham that recommended her. I didn't see her in the part, but Lena told me that Gillian can do anything. It turned out to be true.

I didn't realize how good I was with technology until I met my parents... my dad told me "You're good; you should be a computer programmer." I said, "You're bad... you should be a caveman."