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" After going to theater school, and then subsequently dropping out, I would say that when I first went to Chicago and learned long-form improv, that was a far better acting workshop than any acting school I've been to. "
School
Acting
Better
" Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short. "
Work
Short
Work Ethic
" Everything needs to be lampooned. I believe that there's not any sacred ground. "
Everything
Believe
I Believe
" I don't program, so I don't belong in Silicon Valley. If I did belong in Silicon Valley, I'd be there creating a revolutionary compression algorithm for billions of dollars. "
Creating
Did
Valley
" I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced. "
Brain
You
Think
" I got into performing fairly young and went from, like, a shy kid to a total weirdo. "
Got
Young
Weirdo
" I just grew up liking computers and stuff like that. Mainly cool stuff, like video games. "
Video Games
Games
Computers
" I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world. "
Change The World
Thinking
Like
" I'm a bit of a curmudgeon. I don't like Valentine's Day and New Year's and Halloween. "
Like
Bit
Day
" I make very basic country rustic furniture. "
Rustic
Basic
Country
" I'm cool as a cucumber, baby. "
Baby
Cool
Cucumber
" I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits. "
More
Trying
Recognize
" In D&D, you're only in that fantasy world. But with GURPS, you can, like, play a game that's Los Angeles film noir, or a game where the premise is you are world-jumpers, and you can go to different worlds. "
Play
Go
Game
" I need some more followers! I need to get my stats up to a million so I can make any movie with The Rock I want! "
I Can
Want
Up
" In eighth grade, when I was just the school weirdo, my drama teacher put me in a play, and we came up with a few comedy bits. And that very first reaction, for an audience of supportive middle schoolers, I put my head out and pretended I got scared by the audience, and ducked back in. They all went: 'Yeah! That's great!' "
Teacher
Comedy
Great
" It's not as if I've never been awkward myself. I'm a big gamer, so I've had access to that type of personality. I used to go to these LAN parties; that was before high-speed Internet. The only way you could get lag-free gaming was to haul these huge computers to people's houses. "
Computers
Personality
People
" I've always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons. "
Always
Been
Gamer
" I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special in particular because this was before I had gotten anything, before anything was clicking, and I just found myself hanging out with Scott Thompson. "
Hanging
Myself
Meeting
" I wanted to be like 'Kids in the Hall.' "
Like
Kids
Hall
" I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn't based on grades; that was the popular vote. "
Popular
Vote
Voted
" I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program. "
Island
Theater
University
" Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize. "
Need
Sometimes
Page
" Speaking as someone who's played a lot of video games, and at the end of the video game all you have is a memory, after woodworking you get this piece of furniture. "
Memory
Video Games
You
" There's all these little bubbles of nerddom. "
Little
Bubbles
" T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy. "
Met
Chicago
Learning
" You get a lot of apps and companies that are trying to sell you on something that's totally useless or potentially unhealthy. Only occasionally does something really worthwhile really come out. "
Only
You
Useless
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