I'm an actor. I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don't really care about jokes either. I tire of jokes.

- Brett Gelman

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun.

- Brett Gelman

Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.

- Brett Gelman

I've definitely had my hard partying moments. I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense lonelines…

- Brett Gelman

I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.

- Brett Gelman

I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying them…

- Brett Gelman

Even the people who do great jokes, [it's] always coming out of a very real place.

- Brett Gelman

Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming out of the character. If you don't have…

- Brett Gelman

I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny.

- Brett Gelman