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When you're leading Marines, you don't screw around, so the comedy is limited in uniform. And when you're a comedian, you can't be heavy handed and come across with tales of gore or material that people won't understand, so I try to keep them separate.

As a comedian, it really gelled when I started doing standup. Because standup is so much about bravery, especially in the early days. There is no doubt that it is going to go terribly for you over and over and over again. But you cannot get funny without bombing.

To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.

Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.

When you go out there to do comedy, you feel like you're doing battle with the audience a lot of the time. You're either going to get 'em, or you're not.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.