I would love to be in Kansas.

I don't really want to direct myself, but I'm certainly torn in that direction.

I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.

It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

I take having a kids' show real seriously. I think it's an enormous responsibility.

I wasn't a great improviser when I started there; I'm not really up on current events. I would always just mug, just try to get my laughs from making faces. So I decided to do a character who should never have become a comic - somebody you would see at the Comedy Store and go, "This person is never going to make it."