I love watching people be totally committed in a very real way to stupid situations. I find it's not so much trying to be funny, it's trying to be real in a messed up context. That's comedy to me.

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat and I built a boat.

I'm a cotton-headed ninny muggins.

Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

Whenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them, because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired.

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.