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" A comedian is sort of like a wild animal. It really just depends on where you catch them. Sometimes they want to cuddle up, and sometimes they'll snap at you. But for me, more often than not, if I'm talking to somebody who makes their living in comedy, it'll be a very thoughtful conversation driven from an emotionally honest place. "
Thoughtful
Animal
Conversation
" An autograph is actually refreshing because everyone has cameras now and wants a selfie. That's why I carry signed headshots with me, to give out. "
Why
Everyone
Me
" Anyone you give a ton of money to is going to go slightly crazy. I don't think comedians are particularly special in that regard; they just are better or more vocal in their expressions of their craziness. "
Better
Crazy
You
" Between podcasts and places like Funny or Die or CollegeHumor, there are so many venues to get the word out. It makes it difficult in that there's a never-ending desire for content, so you have to constantly be turning stuff out, but that makes you better and more prolific in general. "
Die
Desire
Content
" 'Cavemen' was obviously a big opportunity. I learned a lot about how to act and about the politics of being on a set every day. Like, who do you have to listen to and who you don't have to listen to. "
Opportunity
Day
Listen
" Comedy can't be done in a vacuum, and you can't do it on your own. So if you have a community of people, it's a great symbiotic relationship. "
Community
Great
Relationship
" Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense. "
Like
Better
Comedy
" Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science. "
Belief
Know
Science
" Doing radio commercials was how I was really able to leave my day job. "
Radio
Job
Doing
" Even though 'Kroll' was a crazy sketch show with big characters, one of the things I'm proud of about the show is that the characters were always kind of coming from an emotionally honest place for whoever I thought that character was. "
Character
Crazy
Place
" Fantasy football has changed how I watch football because now every game is interesting start to finish. Even when its the Browns and Lions. "
Now
Football
Interesting
" For me, I was literally trying to stay afloat. I never actually thought I would get my own sketch show. So the idea that one day I would have my own show is pretty wild. But once I got it, I thought, 'Yeah, this is exactly what I always wanted to do.' "
Thought
Wild
Me
" I came to New York and started doing stand-up and improv, and started auditioning for commercials and voiceovers and stuff. My first job was on a pilot of that prank show called 'Boiling Points' on MTV. "
Pilot
Show
Doing
" I can't play video games or games on my phone because I'll go into a deep vortex, and no one will hear from me for weeks. "
Phone
Deep
Play
" I did, like, one or two plays in high school, but I don't think I realized I wanted to do comedy until I got to college, and I started doing improv and saw the Upright Citizens Brigade perform and did workshops with them. "
School
High School
Two
" I didn't have any terrible survival jobs. The main job I had before I was able to transition over to acting full-time was working at an after-school program at a middle school teaching improv and standup. So even when I had a regular job, I was still lucky enough to be doing the stuff I loved in some way. "
Survival
Job
Loved
" I do a lot of eavesdropping. That's one of the things I miss about New York: just checking people out. "
Things
People
Just
" I don't like downtime, and I just am too insecure that I'll not work again if I don't start the ball rolling on the next round of things. Everything takes so long to make and come to fruition. "
Everything
Long
Start
" I feel incredibly lucky at this moment in my career to get paid to do basically exactly what I always wanted to do. I appreciate that in general. But you know, like any job, a job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with. "
Know
Moment
People
" I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience. "
Experience
Sad
Movies
" I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to. "
Work
Found
Joke
" If you talk to most ambitious people, people who are high achievers, they're rarely at peace with what they're doing because they need an engine to keep moving. "
Doing
Need
Peace
" I got my SAG card doing commercials. "
Got
Doing
Commercials
" I guess my first big break was getting the hit show 'Cavemen' on ABC. People made fun of it, but it was a huge opportunity for me and moved me out to L.A., where I learned a ton about acting and how much I didn't want to be in makeup for four hours a day. "
People
Opportunity
Makeup
" I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it. "
Somewhere
Internet
Like
" I had a world theme at my Bar Mitzvah: each table was a different country. I had a miserable time. There was one picture of me, and I'm wearing a double-breasted suit. There were all these people having fun, and I'm just standing there. I look like a corporate lawyer who just found out he's not making partner. "
People
World
Me
" I have so many funny friends that I hang out and do bits with, and the fact that we can hire each other is amazing. I asked all of them to help make 'Kroll Show' the best that it can be. I'm selfishly trying to use their funny genius for my own benefit. "
Friends
Help
Own
" I'm a good uncle, but I'm not a great caretaker. I feel oftentimes pretty selfish within the relationships I have with my siblings and, historically, with what I give back versus what I've taken over the years. "
Good
Uncle
Selfish
" I miss the New York bagel but miss the New York bialy even more. It's a great compromise of bagel feeling with less dough stuffing. "
New York
Great
Feeling
" I'm proud of the work that we did, and my hope is that everyone who worked on 'Kroll Show,' it will be a credit that people will be like, 'Oh, you worked on that show? The word on that show was that it was good.' "
Hope
Good
Proud
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