All the way back to Dartmouth, I was part of the insurgency.

Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.

I like Tom Wolfe's description of the country: There's America. The coasts are like the parentheses. In between is the country.

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

I was inspired by comedy channels. I loved that they got to do sketches and could be funny and crude and make people laugh. But most of those channels, if not all of them, were done by guys.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

A lot of the time, a comedy script is just dialogue, and that's the main thing you have to worry about.

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.