Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.

You can either just have fun with the joke or you can have fun with the joke and think about the implication of it. It's totally up to the listener.

I just think that life is a constant experiment.

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots.

I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.

Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.

An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection to creativity. It's the thing that you see in any amazing moment that any human being is performing. Whether it's watching Michael Jordan navigating through all these attackers and then suddenly rising up and putting the ball in the most amazing way, or watching an actor on stage playing Shakespeare, but not thinking about the actor anymore or the stage or you or the chair, any of these kinds of moments of transcendence.