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.
From Mike Birbiglia
If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress.
With a monologue, you can be unendingly elliptical.
Sometimes people say, 'You're the best at digressions.' And that's actually a real compliment to me.
Film is so immersive.
I have a following, but it's small. I have this level of fame where people spot me in the airport, consistently, but they always think they're the only one who ever has. People will think they win a prize when they recognize me.
Everything about starting out in comedy is pride-swallowing, from handing out fliers to bombing in front of audiences.
You have to be delusional to be a comedian.
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!'
Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'
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