Funny people don't really laugh very much..

The thing that struck me is so many people that said, "Hey, I've been watching you since I was 12, and I'm 25 now." It was a weird shift, because you….

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes..

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody..

A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, "Sit behind the guitar and play the chords," just because it's….

There's probably some buried conservative inside of me, coming out like a little gremlin in my belly that I've suppressed. This is a sort of characte….

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway..

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….

I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions..

I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becom….

I used to work in an office in New York for this terrible company, and we used to have staff meetings, and I would just count how many times the boss….

Just because we can shoot something that looks like a movie doesn't mean we should. Sometimes if something looks too good, it's not funny. Some thing….

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 s….

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that..

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands..

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality..

When people come in to act on the show, we say, "Just be extremely dry and not funny. Let the idea be the joke." That holds true through a lot of our….

I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie..

It's never fun to read death threats..

Most of my ideas just come out funny..

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