The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.

I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail.

I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

I'm not a fatalist. I'm not a religious person. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.

I have a car that I like - an Aston Martin - for Sunday drives in the country.

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.