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“You can find nice clothes that suit your style at any number of places - Goodwill, Salvation Army, stores like that. They're all over the place. If you put in the time, you can find good stuff at decent prices.”
“I consume a lot of podcasts. I'm a voracious podcast consumer.”
“I have Peter O'Toole's autograph on a first-edition copy of his autobiography that I acquired under false pretenses.”
“More than just a sobering history lesson, 'Angry Birds' is a beautiful game. It's absolutely lovely.”
“The first time I did Cake Boss or Ice-T or Andrew Lloyd Webber was on 'Best Week Ever.'”
“We all forget that when a TV network says, 'Look, we're broke,' it means that they're not making as much money as they would like to be making. They're still making millions and millions of dollars - they're just not making billions and billions of dollars.”
“Obviously a president can't rule as a king and ban all guns. But I think we need a president who is going to make sure that there is gun control and that people still feel like their freedoms are intact.”
“A struggle in my life is to feel like I'm a good person and to feel like I'm a nice person. I try to be and anytime I fall short of that it feels really bad.”
“You know, back when I was a kid who wanted to be in show business, everybody on TV wore nice clothes. They were very glamorous when they would be on the 'Tonight Show.' All the dudes wore suits and ties and that just seemed like real show business to me.”
“I always like things that shrink the world for me, that make me feel a strange connection, not just to the person that I'm listening to but to the world.”
“I think you can make jokes about anything. But you have to accept that there will be people who don't like it. And they are completely within their rights, just as you are completely within your rights to say whatever you want to say. They're within their rights to react how they're going to react.”
“Performing live can be a drag, the process that leads up to the actual performance. It's all the travel, it's working up all the details and everything, which I hate.”
“When I started my own podcast, I realized I definitely wanted to do characters.”
“I long ago vowed, as Batman did before me, never to make fun of stuff that people couldn't help. Because it's (1) easy and (2) not fair. There are plenty of things that people have complete control over that are worthy of ridicule.”
“I got married and we had a relatively simple wedding and there were not a lot of thrills to it.”
“When I started stand-up, the people I admired most were the people who were the most themselves onstage.”
“When I go in to 'Comedy Bang Bang,' I'll go in most of the time with some beats of where we're going with the idea. Everything else is improvised. Nothing is scripted. A lot of times I'll go in there with nothing and it's just conversation with the character.”
“Dress how you like to dress. Don't worry so much about rules.”
“There are absolutely no limits with podcasting because you can do anything you want.”
“I just approach everything by just doing the best job I can do and try to be a pleasant person.”