I don't drink a lot. My family calls me an old soul. And my friends call me a pussy.

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.

I feel like people have more in common than the news reports.

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

I thought, Hey, maybe these people shouldn't be making up holidays to drink more. Maybe if they drank less they might be able to title their newspaper articles more specifically. For example, I would title this last article "Drunk Driver Hits Drunk Walker Drunkety-Drunk I'm So Drunk."

Some people come up to me and say "You know, in Italy, it's pronounced Ber-beel-lia" And I say "Well, here in America, you're annoying..."