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Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage.

I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year.

People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake.

Well, I have since seen you at Tinkle. It's a comedy show started by David Cross, me and Jon Benjamin. It features a wide variety of acts for all tastes and seasons.

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.

A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.

You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.