My problem with being in New York City is that you really can't make a living as a comedian. You can, but you have to also take writing jobs, which means less stage time.
I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway.
How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.
I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.
I like 'Donnie Darko;' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep.
Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.
Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.
Comedy unites, it doesn't divide!
I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.
My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting, and then rewrite, rewrite and rewrite.
I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.
I almost can't even put to words how happy I am that I got married.
In my twenties, I thought it was getting a sitcom. Then I got a sitcom pilot in my early thirties, and realized I didn't want it. It was a rude awakening. When it wasn't picked up, I was crushed, but then in retrospect I've made two films and produced three one-man shows since then. It's the luckiest thing that happened in my life.
In our culture right now, I want to take on this notion of what a singular success means. We think success is one thing, but it's actually a spectrum of where our life takes us.
I actually love 'Saturday Night Live,' like a sports fan watches their favorite team to see how they're doing. I know the players and the writers, I've known several people on that show for a number of years.
Sex and pizza, they say, are similar. When it's good, it's good. When it's bad, you get it on your shirt.
I love Valentine's Day. When you're a kid everyone gets a Valentine. It's like 'TO TIM, NICE PANTS, LOVE SCOTT'. It's Valentines galore!
I was a screenwriting major in college, and really wanted to do that after I graduated, but there are no job listings for that, as we all know. I had many classmates that made it in the business, but stand-up comedy was my way in, and my first film 'Sleepwalk with Me' was based on those autobiographical experiences.
I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.
When I'm taking the subway to my improv shows I will be writing in my notebook different actions that I see people doing on the train whether it's eating yogurt or looking at where their stop is, or tripping or holding a baby. It's not preparing scenes and ideas as much as it is stoking your brain to think observantly. Just to place observations in your head, so that they are available somewhere.
Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.
You can express love by calling out the truth out of the situation as opposed to dancing around it.
Fortunately, I don't talk about politics on stage.
