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I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first!... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then rationalized, drew up a brief, with periods.

You have a laugh line; don't accentuate it. You get a bigger laugh.

I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.

Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

Most people know me from 'The Office,' where I played a guy who grunted out three or four words an episode and was kind of a knucklehead, and so I think it's surprising for people to see me do something like this. But Shakespeare is what I grew up wanting to do.

When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.