I guess I like people doing roasts in public. That's my thing.

If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.

Whoever has the most at stake should have the most power.

The rules may seem obvious but when you think about them they're not. For somebody who has my job they're not as obvious as one would think.

The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.

When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on black people's side, clearly.

People get way too much credit at funerals.

[Robert Smigel] is one of the greatest comedy writers in the last 50 years. "TV Funhouse" and Triumph and all those sketches.He's really unique, and he has an amazing comedy mind.

I think it's naïve to think white people aren't singing along directly!

Models never say, "I'm hot." They say, "Look at these clothes." Whereas, with comedy, you have to say, "I'm hot."

I'm making fun of midwestern homophobia [in the joke], but I'm still saying faggot. And almost every month as I'm doing that joke it gets five percent less of a laugh.

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

I hate the road so much. I almost go into a cocoon with my own people out there.

Brazil is not what you see but what you feel. Once you spend time here - a week, two weeks - you get in the vibe. It's really intoxicating.

Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate.

I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.

If you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career. Or at least you will love it more, and you won't lead a depressed day of your life.

When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.

My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.