I feel all of the archetypes in Silicon Valley probably exist in some other form in other subcultures..

This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life. I like Louis C.K.'s….

My brother, who's a few years older then me, went to college in New York. He said all of these people from Saturday Night Live do improv together in ….

I remember as a child listening to comedic musicals and thinking they were a real riot. I had pretty questionable taste in comedy..

I really knew almost nothing about Silicon Valley. I read that Steve Jobs book and watched a bunch of documentaries, and read the book about Mark Zuc….

For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people. It was a pretty depressing c….

It's always fun to improvise. What's weird is that when you're recording, you're by yourself, for the most part..

The days that you record by yourself, you feel like a crazy person because you're saying the same line, 10 different ways, or they ask you for 10 dif….

I remember the first joke that I made, which went over terribly. I was at my cousin's birthday party in Brooklyn. I was a little kid and she was a li….

I think I gravitate towards characters who are slight outsiders. It's fun to play a character that wants so badly to be included in the normal activi….

When I was a kid my father would read Neil Simon plays with me when I was going to bed, as bedtime stories. All of these old plays like The Odd Coupl….

I think sometimes when people start doing improv there's some regression towards trying to replicate the "good" improvisers that they've read about i….

A lot of times the movies I think are the funniest are dramas. I feel like dramas are so much funnier because they're actually capturing human beings….

I actually really liked teaching. I started teaching at UCB when I was in college. I would get someone to fill out an internship form or something so….

I would love to do a drama. I did a couple of episodes of The Good Wife, which is more of a drama. I really liked that; I thought it was interesting.….

I don't go to see many comedies anymore, because I guess it feels like another day at the office..

I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but if you're a robot, you have good equilibrium.….

There's some boring advice for improvisers beginning their careers like "see as much of it as you can and do as much of it as you can." Volume, in a ….

As I get older, I think I'm more interested in comedy that doesn't take cheap shots. But I watched some of that Justin Bieber "roast" and I thought i….

When I was a kid I wanted to be a musician. I used to play the trumpet. I practiced all the time, but I got braces and I couldn't play it anymore, so….

I would rather a sex tape make its way out than a video of me doing all of the different grunt sounds. I'm not eager for a sex tape to leak, but in t….