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There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people won't.

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

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.

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.