In some sense, Comedy Central has made their audience into comedy connoisseurs.

I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free.

Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways.

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting.

You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of sitcom, arms-in-front-of-your-body sleepwalking, and then maybe Olive Oil and Popeye when she sleepwalks through the construction site. But it's all very cartoonish, in some cases literally.

I grew up in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and went to college in Washington D.C.

You know the expression, 'You're only as sick as your secrets?' I believe that, and I think I try to have my work live by that to a degree.

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn.

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

People are making better and better small budge independent films these days.

Someone gave me a piece of advice once, my first manager Lucien Hold. He said, 'If you do stand-up about your own life, no one can steal it.' I always thought that was the best piece of advice.

I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.

I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!'

I love Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel.

I actually wasn't really the class clown growing up. The class clown was always the mean guy who walked up and was like, 'You're fat. You're gay. I'm outta here!' I was always more kind of awkward and introspective.

The thing with film is that it's so wide-reaching compared to comedy. When I release my comedy special, half a million people will see it. If I release a movie, five to ten million people will see it.

The way I view comedy clubs is, people are drinking, they're ordering food, they're out for the night, and there's also a person onstage talking. And with the theater, they came to the theater, and they're waiting to hear what you say. So you'd better have something to say.

When I was growing up, I didn't know who Jewish people were, what it was to be Jewish.

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

My first car was, as depicted in 'Sleepwalk with Me,' my mother's '92 Volvo station wagon that had 80,000 miles on it, and I had put 40,000 miles on it, so by the time it retired it had 120,000, and I basically killed it. It served me well, and my mechanic was always very angry with me because I just didn't properly care for it.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

I listened to this interview once with Jerry Seinfeld that really influenced my comedy and all of my writing, which is that when you're starting out in comedy, it's the audience that tells you what's funny about you. And you need to listen to that and make a note of that.