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- I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression…
- When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.
- You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.
- Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive,…
- Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.
- When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.
- If you're asking me, would I have voted for Mitt Romney, the answer is absolutely not. Emphatically not. I cannot envision a world in which…
- Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.
- When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.
- There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to…
- You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally…
- People are always going to say stupid things, and you're always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the…
- You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on…
- Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England, it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly…
- Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.
- Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
- Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.
- I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!
- I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.
- I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.
- I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it.
- It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.
- I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is…
- In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really…
- You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.
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