"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."
"I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program."
"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."
"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."
"T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy."
"I've always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons."
"Everything needs to be lampooned. I believe that there's not any sacred ground."
"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."
"I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits."
"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."
"I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn't based on grades; that was the popular vote."
"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."
"I make very basic country rustic furniture."
"I wanted to be like 'Kids in the Hall.'"
"I just grew up liking computers and stuff like that. Mainly cool stuff, like video games."
"I'm not in Hollywood because I'm good at math."
"I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world."
"I'm more nerdy in a sense of, like, video games and Dungeons and Dragons and Renaissance Faire. But not nerdy in a sense that I know how to create apps."
"There's all these little bubbles of nerddom."
"Part of me wants a bunch of jocks to go to Comic-Con and call them all dweebs so they can be like, 'Pump the brakes a little bit.' But that said, it's all positive. It's just, of course, I'm going to find some cynicism in it."
"I grew up on '80s action movies... Jean Claude Van Damme, Schwarzenegger, Stallone... If there were ever some opportunity to do that, it'd be great."
"I have a fairly pragmatic view on all those bullies that came before, because everybody makes you who you are now."
"I got into performing fairly young and went from, like, a shy kid to a total weirdo."
"I met Mike Judge when I was working on my own cartoon for MTV; it did not air. But I got on with Mike and then did a few voices on 'Beavis and Butt-Head' because of it."
"All the sharky elements of Hollywood are similar to sharky elements in Silicon Valley. It's obviously different, but the deals are the same. And you get hot, then you're not."
