Occupation: Comedian Birth: September 12, 1968
The bike has very few controls. It's very simple to operate and understand and your field of vision is certainly greatly expanded as opposed to being….
There's something strange about comedy requests. I guess if you enjoy something, why not hear it again? But there's something weird about it being li….
If the idea is you're working at a job solely to pay the bills because you have ambitions to do something else, if you're not actively trying to do t….
I didn't want to have to call a cab if I went to the supermarket. So I eventually got a bike, just a beach cruiser, and I rode that thing all over to….
When the response to comedy becomes cheering instead of laughing, that is so irritating. It's the worst. Here's what cheering is: "Look at me!" That'….
I came from a big family, with not enough attention. It's classic. I wasn't the baby, but was second to last. It's absolutely the same story that mos….
Making movies is nice, man. A movie with some money behind it? Sweet. So many snacks and stuff. Name-brand. And many different kinds of coffee..
I do think I'm terrific at giving advice. Although in our hearts we usually know what we should do. It's rare that you get in a situation in life whe….
I haven't seen comedy as popular as it is now since when I started, in the late 1980s boom. It feels like that again, in that it's everywhere, and it….
I famously stole tons of VHS tapes from a video store I worked in. It was detailed in my special, Laboring Under Delusions. I worked at Tower Video a….
I loved the bike because it gave me some measure of independence that I did not have..
How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous..
I meet Daniel Day-Lewis. He's just sitting in a chair on the set. Now, I had been told that Daniel Day-Lewis was kind of an intense person. And he's ….
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….
I think Jaws is one of those movies that, if it is on, I will watch it until it's finished..
The first time on stage is such a blur to me. I remember how it felt more than anything. I remember everything about the day before I went on stage -….
I love bad comedy more than I love good comedy, so I love open mics. Or I used to. But the thing that delights me more than anything else in an open-….
The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time..
Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia..
In the clubs, the entertainment and the restaurant business are at war with each other. You get crowds that are not the greatest, and it becomes like….
To achieve the intimacy between performer and audience in storytelling, I feel like I have to let the audience in on my emotional state, not just, "H….