Adam Conover

“Comics are regularly asked to perform for impossible rooms. They're called 'hell gigs.'”

“I think that veganism is a totally great choice with incredible benefits, but I don't think it's reasonable to expect other people to be vegan or to expect everybody to be vegan. You can proselytize all you want, but being vegan is a pretty intense choice for a lot of people.”

“I have a lot of family in Marquette. I'm way more familiar with the U.P. than I am with the lower peninsula. I've visited Michigan every couple of years since I was a kid.”

“I wanted to go to grad school for philosophy, but I couldn't hack it in college, at least I couldn't at that level.”

“Comedy has no rules, per se.”

“Social media is just more media.”

“Human capacity for not thinking about what we're doing is infinite.”

“That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.”

“One of my favorite things about sketch comedy is doing parodies and music videos.”

“Narcissism is a fact of life - it's a natural part of growing older, right? It's a part of your development. So being angry about the younger generation being 'narcissistic,' that's like saying 'Oh, this young generation only wants to poop in their diaper! They don't want to use the bathroom!'”

“Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.”