Judah Friedlander

“Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.”

“I've been driving in the city for years because, as a stand-up in N.Y.C., you can perform at more comedy clubs a night if you have a car. Getting from club to club by subway is too slow at night and too expensive by cab. So, many comics live far out from Manhattan and drive in every night.”

“My shirt and my hat always say 'World Champion' in some language. English, Spanish, Chinese, 'Star Wars' language, which is also known as Aurebesh, mermaid language.”

“I am the greatest marital artist in the world.”

“If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.”

“I'd like to work with John Waters. I grew up in Maryland, so I'm a huge Waters fan.”

“I watch a movie or a T.V. show or whatever; if it's good, I like to watch it more than once, and it's always fun to catch something you didn't see initially.”

“I think I've proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That's how it always works.”

“Before I started doing '30 Rock', I did about 25 movies. I'd always been doing stand-up every night, and then I would do, like, two to four movies a year. So I really liked doing that, and I want to get back to that, but because of the time commitment to '30 Rock', there's not much time to do that stuff.”

“I'm actually banned from the Himalayas, because I'm too good at yoga.”

“Sometimes '30 Rock' was a struggle because I'd be doing the show and still be doing stand-up full-time.”

“Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, I'm perfect.”

“I've done all kinds of movies, but I wanna do some more independent films that are not your run-of-the-mill type movies like 'American Splendor', which I had a big part in, that are really trying to do something unique.”

“I get hecklers all the time!”

“I'm an extra dark black belt in ping pong.”

“Show business always tries to stereotype you, so that is something you have to fight against no matter who you are. A lot of actors who are of a minority background complain that they only get stereotyped roles, and they are 100 percent correct. However, it's also true that, no matter who you are, you get typecast as well.”

“I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.”

“Let's say there was a fat guy heckling me. I would rip him to shreds, but I would never go for the obvious, never talk about how he's fat or anything.”

“I started doing my own animated movies when I was in ninth grade; that's when I got the filmmaking bug. When I was about 16, I started writing jokes for doing stand up, and then I was 19 and started doing stand up.”

“I'm not one of those kind of people who does the observational 'Hey, don't you hate it when you're at the grocery store and the line's long and the cash register starts taking too long.' I don't really do that kind of stuff. I'm heavy on persona, and I do a lot of interacting with the audience.”