Chris Gethard

To a crowd that loves improv, Robin Williams is like Chuck Berry. ”

I take medications every morning and night - they're my breakfast, and they're my dessert. I love them. ”

I've taught people in improv classes, then watched them move to Los Angeles to become Emmy winners and movie stars. That experience, for anyone wondering, is both super exciting and also makes you put a microscope on your own life choices. It causes you to question why you still perform stand-up in so many Brooklyn basements. ”

I didn't like who I was. I spent a lot of my life regretting who I was, which is a sad thing to say. ”

The street I lived on for the first handful of years of my life was lined with modest, lower-middle-class houses with small front yards and cracked driveways - your typical North Jersey neighborhood, with all the odd hidden darkness that that implies. ”

What if?' is just about the worst question I can ask myself, and I want to avoid it at all costs for the rest of my life. ”

I'm very happy with my decision to go sober. It's helped my life. It's helped my mental stability. ”

I think, in my own life, I'm pretty political. I think I have some very strong ideals, and I struggle a lot with it. I struggle a lot with feeling like, 'I have a platform; should I be saying more?' ”

In 2010, I was the star of a sitcom. It came and went pretty fast. But in the months from when I was cast in the sitcom through when it was done airing, my life did change remarkably. ”

Part of North Jersey life is that everyone is obsessed with being tough all the time. ”