Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our story, and this is who we are," and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.

We use all the takes that no one would ever use and often the moments before we say action, or before we say cut. No one's ever called and complained or anything like that. Everyone's just so grateful to get the work and to be on TV and all that.

When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.

When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking.

We, the comics that we like, we're all, like, post-humor.

We are making fun of stuff. It is subversive, I think, and in many ways political. It's a reaction against the society we live in, very much so. When we make a commercial for a product that doesn't do anything.

I always liked records that didn't explain themselves too well - ones that you had to listen a few times.