The best sketch shows are from a group of tight-knit people whove worked together for a really long time.

You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together.

Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD.

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

The podcast was kind of an afterthought, because I was just excited about being on the radio. Then I found that the podcast listenership is some 20 times what people are listening to on the radio.

Things go away and projects crumble and disappear, or you make your movie and it comes out and no one watches it.

That's one of the benefits of working with a smaller network like IFC. You're awarded more trust, but trust that I really earned.

I guess when I was a kid I wasn't the type of person playing a lot of pranks. I was the type of person upon whom pranks were pulled.

I love all of our subpodcasts.

Your average comedian doesn't know the podcast universe, really.

I always viewed [the podcast and the TV show] as two separate things.

-Bumblebee bat, how do you see at night?-I make a squeaky sound that bounces back from whatever it hits. I see by hearing.

Change is both exciting and scary. Learning new skills is the same. Having an idea of what to expect emotionally is as important as knowing what to expect from both real and imagined limitations.

If he'd cut off his right arm to make her happy, then how much harder could it be to cut out his heart?

But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white

In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

We should be so joyful from God's grace that others would respond by saying, 'I wish I had your God.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.