Brian Posehn

“A lot of the traditional sitcom stuff I did - I think I could have gone that route when I was younger as a staff writer, and I just didn't want to.”

“I think too much during my day-to-day life; I'm the guy who worries about everything.”

“I feel very lucky that I've been able to carve out any niche at all in this business. It's so hard to get into.”

“I have tried to be more relatable, but I won't be relatable to everybody.”

“I've always hated the term 'alternative'; I only use it because when I say it, people know what I'm talking about. I always thought it was weird when guys like myself or Patton Oswalt or Dana Gould, these older guys, were called 'alternative' comedy.”

“I wanted to be a vet before I got into comedy, but then once I found out how much gore goes into that job, I wanted nothing to do with it.”

“I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.”

“I try to hit all the places Guy Fieri visits in every city I go to. It's, like, something a 60-year-old would do.”

“I'm doing a pilot for Comedy Central with the band Steel Panther. They're faux heavy metal. They started as kind of a tribute band out here, or a cover band, and they're funny guys, and they just sort of morphed into their own thing.”

“I love to visit the comic shops, and I don't want to call myself a 'foodie,' because that word is just stupid, but I love diner food, and I'm a hardcore fan of 'Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.'”

“I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me.”

“Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act.”

“I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.”

“I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.”

“I used to own a stuffed piranha, but I haven't seen it in years. I don't even know what happened to it. Maybe my wife didn't want it to make the move from the last house to this one.”

“I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen program, 'Anger Management.'”

“I used to see my friend Harland Williams in a lot of auditions. Then you'd see one of the DeLuise kids because they're kind of heavy and character-y. You'd just see a lot of the same guys over the years.”

“Juvenile stuff has always made me laugh. It's what I know.”

“I don't know if I was a poseur - I really did love metal, always - but I gave a lot of other things a chance. I wanted to meet, um, girls, so I would check out 'Depeche Mode.'”

“My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.”