When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.

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Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

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Teacher Whole Who

Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.

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Love Weirdo Weird

I'm so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I've been claiming Denver. Part of the joke of the song is nobody was really claiming Denver - no rappers, no comedians.

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Art Wrote T

I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.

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Work Famous Which

My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.

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T Room Long

Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.

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Your You T

You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.

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Work Yourself Yours

I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.

Ways Way Us

It's much better to wreak havoc on a show and be a maniac than promote myself. Plugs and anecdotes aren't really in line with my beliefs. Besides, if someone sees me on a morning show and thinks, 'That's not funny; this guy is crazy,' then I don't want them to come to the show anyway.

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Morning Funny Wit

My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.

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Work Love Ways

I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

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T Sweat People

I actually prefer Twitter as a medium, and I also got into Periscope for a second, but I'm still trying to figure out what to do with it. I can't figure out if the only important thing about it is the live broadcast, or if it's an interesting kind of way to log what you do.

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You Yin Wit

Mike Judge usually receives underwhelming acclaim for his movies when they come out; it takes a while for people to catch up.

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Movies While Usual

Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.

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Work Wear Vision

Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.

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You Through T

I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.

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Great Wit Tree

Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, making them laugh. I like that. I like the intimacy.

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You Wit Up

Is it possible to have negative self-awareness?

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War T Self-Awareness

We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.

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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

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Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.

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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.

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When you get into a car, and there's trash, or it's dirty, or one of the hubcaps is off, you're like, 'Come on, dude.' Every woman likes the confidence and self-respect that says, 'I get oil changes. I look after my vehicle.' That's what I recommend: Act like you don't care, but take care of your body.

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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.

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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.

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I don't know that I would host the Golden Globes or the Emmys because I don't think they have the appreciation for irreverence that the Critics Choice does.

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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'

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I don't get along much with myself.

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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.

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J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche.

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If you're a comedian, you can change peoples lives for the better in much smaller increments - not their entire life, but for 15 minutes or a half hour.

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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

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I think I'm just a comedian who's a pretty good con man, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.

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'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' - there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.

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Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

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I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.

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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.

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I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant.

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I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.

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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.

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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.

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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

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Steve Martin's comedy albums are so ridiculous.

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There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

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'Silicon Valley' is a great show. It might be the best comedy on television. And if the Academy feels I have stood out to the point of deserving an award, I won't pawn it.

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I feel like I've forcefully been thrust into the tech world, and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

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There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

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