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" Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Dava Carvey, Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell - they're all the best. "
Adam
Best
Adam Sandler
" A lot of my characters are people who are, in essence, lying to themselves. They present one thing, when in reality they're another thing. Maybe they're not as tough or as cool as they want to be. "
People
Present
Reality
" A lot of the characters I play seem to be lying to themselves in some way. They maybe present themselves as confident or good at something, but in reality, it's clear that they don't know what they're talking about. "
Play
Know
Good
" Generally, I'm attracted to videos that hit me some way nostalgically. "
Way
Videos
Some
" Growing up in San Diego, my main interests were the Beatles, Louis Armstrong, 'Star Wars,' baseball cards, and drawing. "
Baseball
Up
Drawing
" Human interaction is awkward and weird, even if it happens without a microphone or camera. "
Camera
Interaction
Human
" I am generally a nostalgic person and super into the pop culture that I grew up on - I've got a framed ALF poster above my bed and a Mickey Mouse poster, and I've got this big VHS collection. "
Bed
Person
Mickey Mouse
" I am the youngest of three boys, and I was super-informed by what the older ones were into. "
Older
Am
Were
" I definitely am more observational of the people around me and how they interact and less introspective about myself. "
How
More
Myself
" I definitely tried to skateboard in middle school, and being from San Diego, surf and skate culture is a big, prevalent thing. But I was not that good - I was kind of a chubby kid and didn't totally master skating. "
Culture
School
Kind
" I do love critters. "
Love
" I don't write political stuff. I'm sure I've made attempts, but I don't tend to write very topical things, either. I admire those people who do because it's a talent I don't have. "
People
Admire
Write
" I feel like I'm a relatively well-adjusted person. "
Like
Feel
I Feel
" I feel like I've got a pretty relatively extensive Christmas sweatshirt collection. "
Feel
Got
Like
" I guess I always have been a collector. "
Been
Guess
Collector
" I immerse myself in things that meant something to me while I was growing up. "
Myself
Things
Growing Up
" I'm always pretty influenced by stuff from when we were younger. "
Always
Younger
Stuff
" I'm pretty deep into '80s nostalgia, specifically children's entertainment, so a lot of California Raisins, Garfield, Alf - that's kind of a lot of the clothes I have and cherish the most. "
Deep
Clothes
Children
" I'm the youngest of three boys, and my oldest brother was super into Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton and played guitar. I wanted to be like him, so I asked for a guitar of my own for Christmas in '93. "
Own
Brother
Christmas
" In college, I pretty much abandoned music and started performing with the school's improv and sketch troupe, and at some point, that became my permanent thing. "
Music
Sketch
School
" I still watch TGIF shows like 'Family Matters.' "
Like
Matters
Still
" I studied film studies at USC. "
Studies
Studied
USC
" I think, my first season on 'SNL,' I watched every single episode of 'Step by Step,' and a few years prior to that, I watched every single episode of 'Family Matters.' "
Matters
Family
Season
" It's always exciting to create a character that people can relate to, where people are like, 'Oh, I know this dude,' but maybe you've never actually seen this type of character on TV. "
People
You
Character
" I've always been kind of deep into thrifting and secondhand clothing. "
Kind
Deep
Clothing
" I've got a massive VHS collection in my apartment. Some people think that it's not a good thing, but I find comfort in it. "
Good
Got
People
" My mother is a Trekkie, and we're from San Diego, so I was going to Comic-Con when I was, like, 7 years old. "
Mother
Like
Comic-Con
" My VHS collection certainly contains videos that I've had since childhood, and also tapes that my mom had taped off of the Disney Channel or HBO - you know, blank tapes with the 'Care Bears' movie or whatever is on there - but I feel like that collection started for real my freshman year of college. "
Know
Childhood
College
" 'Nathan for You' was my first time being in a writer's room, really. "
First
You
First Time
" One of the most positive takeaways I've had from 'SNL' is when we'd make videos back in the day: we'd just write material as we were inspired, and so, in a given year, we'd only put out two or three videos. "
Three
Back
Year
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