I Enjoy Comedy But It Can Become

I Am Not A Politician Going Around Bragging About Family Values Or Putting Myself On Some Ridiculous Virtuous Pedestal. I Write Comedy. And I Am An Actor. I Am Not Going To Solve The Nation's Problems. I Don't Actually Spend My Life In The Way The Tabloids Like To Think I Do. I Actually Spend 95 Percent Of It Writing Comedy. Sober. Well, Nearly Sober Anyway.

I Do Like To Make People Cringe. That Discomfort, Tension, Embarrassment, Pain - All Of Those Things Interest Me, And Not Through Some Sort Of Masochistic Or Sadistic Impulse. It Illuminates What Being A Human Being Is. It Taps Into What It Is To Be Human More Incisively Than Stuff That's Just Very Pedestrian.

I Like The Fact That People Come Together Who Have Shared Values, But I Don't Believe That A Man Died 2,000 Years Ago And Was Crucified On A Cross To Save Me From My Original Sin.

Big Comedy Is Good, I Like Things That Are Big, But Good Comedy Has To Be Truthful I Think And Has To Reflect Some Sort Of Reality.

If You Chase Something Too Desperately, It Eludes You.