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For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.

Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Will Ferrell, those guys mean so much to me because I watched those guys and how they transform and watch the commitment to what they do. I admire them.

I was in high school when Will Ferrell was first on 'Saturday Night Live', and I remember thinking, 'Man, that guy is the funniest guy ever.'

It's great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny.

Will Ferrell makes me laugh a lot when he gets out there and gets crazy.

I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.

The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.

When someone can, on a worldwide level, make someone laugh, that's power. A lot my heroes - Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell, the Wayans, Adam Sandler - they get it. And I've always felt that Andy Samberg is the future of comedy.