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"In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyone isn't trying to top one another with jokes when you're just hanging around."
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"I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes."

"I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes."

"My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe."

"You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic."

"I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry."

"Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues."

"There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere."

"I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once."
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"There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views."

"I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to march with those people takes a lot of compromise on my end."

"I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny."

"I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry."

"I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either."

"I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people."

"I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner."
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