There's a danger zone if you take yourself too seriously. It's a terrible trap to fall into. I think it's the death of comedy.

Hopefully the person I'm trying to create is just a funny, dour, evil side of myself that has no other way to express itself. I don't model it after anyone in particular. Who would be like that? Who? I wouldn't want to meet that person. I wouldn't want to be interviewed by that person, I can tell you that.

You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

I know, it's amazing to people that we have a political system, but we do.

I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.

Speaking for myself, I try to go out there on the stage and make jokes with people, so I'm not really thinking about the impact anything I have. If it does resonate with people, that's really great.

I was brought up to question things, but I was always a really quiet and shy child.