Occupation: Comedian Birth: September 18, 1978
Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person..
I know is that the response [for Difficult People ] has been really great. I think it's for smart people. I think it's for people who obviously care ….
I am invisible in gay bars..
Difficult People? I don't really know. I don't have those metrics..
I think New Yorkers - they're media savvy. People have a sense of humor..
If you're just really loud, people just want - will give you what you want just to get you to shut up..
I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it's the most important thing in the world, and as i….
The most outrageous thing happened years ago in my YouTube days, when I asked an older lady - it was like a sexually flavored question and she just s….
We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me..
Ironically, my rabbi was a bar mitzvah Nazi. So I got bar mitzvahed. And though I didn't want to, the theme of my bar mitzvah party was Madonna..
I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were midd….
I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job..
A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character tha….
I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. ….
By TV standards - I'm not comparing it to manual labor by any means - by TV comedy standards, it is the hardest job I will ever, ever have. There is ….
My father and I were really like a team. I mean, he was very supportive. He'd come to every single one of my live shows..
When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals t….
I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college..
I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing..
It's crazy. I don't know how I'm not dead. People think I'm going to get punched in the face: "Something terrible is going to happen to you. You're g….
There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me..