"When I am at rodeo I find it difficult not to root for the animals."
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"If I could control the behavior of fat guys I would make them ride mopeds more often."
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"I'm very hip-oriented. I focus on hips in my comedy - probably more than any other hipster comic who is out there hipping today. My hips, other hips. I work with my hips a great deal. That is what I do. But not in a gay way."
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"My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified and valued."
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"I don't know if I'll ever be a master at anything, but I think that's a mistake for me personally. I don't know how much it's about the journey, but it's more about the process."
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"I love Buster Keaton and I love physical comedy when it's done in an emotionally understated way. I just like to play it, and I need the attention."
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"Usually my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it."
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"I think as a performer, it can be really great to stand on stage, especially when you have more time, but I do think about the specific people in the audience, how it's hard for them to get up and go to the bathroom, how they chose not to do other things that night and have turned off their phones and everything. So for that reason, I think it's necessary to mix it up and talk to the audience."
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"When they were naming the animals, somebody got lazy: anteater? What's it doing? It's eating ants. DONE!"
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"I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there."
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"I hate seeing people that look like you. Especially if God's living by the motto 'If at first you don't succeed.'"
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"And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite."
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"I think a lot of people who watch TV don't realize when they're watch TV shows and it says 'produced by' and producer, producer... there are all these producers. What the hell does a producer do? It's funny how much you have to worry about as a producer."
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"I don't know what the long form of OK is. I wanna think it's okie dokie. 'I'm okie dokie. I'm a little shaken up, but I'm okie dokie.' 'The good news is, she's okie dokie. The surgery went fine.'"
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