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.

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.

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.

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

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

Everybody achieves success in life—a blessed few early in their careers, the rest of us when we lower our standards

I'm always ready and willing to just keep pushing and working and going because it's in my spirit.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic.

How do the geese know when to fly to the sun?

Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of.

I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.