Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy. And I am an actor. I am not going to solve the nation's problems. I don't actually spend my life in the way the tabloids like to think I do. I actually spend 95 percent of it writing comedy. Sober. Well, nearly sober anyway.

I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible.

I don't think there's anything outside what comedy can address.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare. When I was at school, I was in Hamlet. I played Claudius, who's supposed to be a 60-year-old man, and I was like 18. It's inherently ridiculous seeing 18-year-old boys with gray beards. That's always funny.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

If you got the balls to follow something through, you can end up being the coolest, smartest guy in the room, because you've literally put your ass on the line.