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I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

For most artists, you take what you have and who you are, and then you expand on it to make it more entertaining. Everyone knows actors aren't the same people that they play in movies, but people somehow expect musicians to be a certain way all the time!

I'm a great believer that actors are very similar to session musicians. You wouldn't ask a session musician, 'How do you play jazz,' and then, 'How do you play classical?' They just do it, because if they don't do it, they don't eat.

Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.