The Berlin Wall comes down in ’89, so then there’s basically a vacuum of who was the enemy and then Fox News comes along in ’95 and it becomes Democrat versus Republican. Now people on the right are fed a steady diet of anti Democratic party propaganda so they believe Democrats are the enemy and they will not believe anything.
I don't really have a process. I just get agitated or aroused by an idea in the world, and then I want to give my rebuttal.
You’re supposed to not like the 'Austin Powers' movies because people ruin the catchphrases. 'Austin Powers' is so funny.
Sentimental is not bad, but it’s probably the most likely to go awry. It’s the hardest to do and not have it end up being 'Forrest Gump' or something. Maudlin - I just don’t want it to be maudlin.
I haven’t watched 'Half Baked' in 17 years, since I was editing it. It’s like looking at an old picture where you have bad bangs or something.
It's way more fun to tell jokes for an hour than it is to sit in a room and bash your head against the wall trying to think of sketches.
I think the biggest influence on my stand-up would be Chris Rock, in that I love that Chris is basically an essayist, in that he’ll take a subject and just try and attack it from as many different angles as he can.
I always say to Blake Griffin that he has a better comedy career than I do.
I think the only op-ed columnist in 'The Times' - where I read all of his stuff - is Paul Krugman.
But my problem was that I did an hour for Comedy Central and nobody seemed to care.
My entryway into hip-hop was - my biggest introduction was obviously like, you know, the Def Jam, Run D.M.C., Beastie Boys, like, that conglomerate.
You know, I liken it to - when you write a joke for somebody else, it's like you - you know, like the Wile E. Coyote dynamite plunger, where he pushes the plunger down and then you see the fuse go then there's an explosion in the distance? That's like writing a joke for somebody. When you tell the joke, you're in the explosion.
I'm not dripping with charisma like many of my friends are. But I do have candour, which is close.
I just don't believe in the old definition that a fan of music is: I find a band, I listen to all of it and I pretend to like stuff that I don't like. Now if I don't like it, I just go, 'I don't like this.' It's way fairer.
I'm not going to say the market is flooded, but there are a lot of people doing comedy.
I love the fact that I can make a podcast in my house and tens of thousands of people will hear it. I also like that it's gotten rid of a lot of gatekeepers.
I think the future belongs to the comedic polymath. It belongs to the person who can generate the most good material in the biggest variety of ways, whether it's sketches or stand-up or songs or tweets or television or films.
Jersey Shore' is one of the best shows of all time… They had so many hooks.
I find that I like what I like. I like a strong melody, I like an inventive structure and I have to like the singer's voice or I have no interest in it.
I get music from odd places that I assume are fairly typical at this point. I'll just go on iTunes, go to EDM and just look at the Top 100, or I'll go on the Beats app and look on the playlists that are sort of curated.
