Sometimes you're not getting the laughs you want or at the place you want but that doesn't mean it's not funny. It means you haven't explored it enou….

Basically I made her [ Sara Pocock] listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I was talking about the art from...if ….

If you're driving down the street, you keep the neck forward. So that way you can clear out the lanes..

There are a bunch of different movies I feel that way about. However, there is a debate because as you may know after MST3K ended there have been thi….

Shrimp are the insects of the ocean. They're bottom feeders. So they're delicious, but they're the bugs of the sea..

I am a big fan of Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He's the voice of science and scientific thinking in the United States and the world. He's the most visible pr….

When you do comedy, the audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don't have to listen to ever….

The album [Blaxistential crisis] artwork is by a friend of mine who is a brilliant artist named Sara Pocock. We've been friends for a couple of years….

I like being around people who are good conversationalists. When there's a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, tha….

One time I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I'll count that as meeting..

When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh..

You're the hero of your own story. So it's interesting for historical revisionism to happen. I had let go of my own story from my own childhood and w….

As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?" You get to a point tha….

The audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don't have to listen to everything they think or….

I can't do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama..

The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place..

I remember reading in a comedy book very long ago when I first started, a person said there's a difference between a sense of humor and a sense of fu….

I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say "old.".

Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding ho….

You're the hero of your own story. I had let go of my own story from my own childhood and whatever anger I had and I began to see it from a very diff….

Sometimes I have young comics that ask me, "What should I do when I meet an agent or a manager and they ask me stuff?" And I say, "Well, they always ….