When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where C…

- Lev Yilmaz

My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.

- Lev Yilmaz

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

- Lev Yilmaz

I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly…

- Lev Yilmaz

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He kee…

- Lev Yilmaz

I always thought that cemeteries gave me some sense of perspective

- Lev Yilmaz

I came home in the afternoon to sleep, and there was this e-mail from Comedy Central saying they were interested in having me be part of this new sho…

- Lev Yilmaz

People always say you can't win if you don't play

- Lev Yilmaz

Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated,…

- Lev Yilmaz