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“That was an interesting thing I learned I think the first time I did a late-night show or something. It was like, “Oh, this is for the camera and a performance that you’re giving to the people at home.””
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“I just watched a ton of comedy and saw a ton of different styles, and eventually you think, ‘Oh, yeah, I could be like that.”
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“I was just trying to blend the standup that I do almost with like the visual sketch stuff that I did on “Saturday Night Live.” And so in terms of how elastic in the world is, we’ll see what we can get away with [in John Mulaney show].”
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“Nick Kroll, A.D. Miles, Chelsea Peretti – those were the people I was always doing open mics with.”
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“With the first episode [of John Mulaney Show] I tell a story that happened to me accidentally chasing a woman down the subway.”
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“My dad is and was very funny and had a really dry sense of humor, which, as a kid, seemed un-fun. But in retrospect, it’s kind of hilarious.”
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“I have tons of jokes with moments in them over the years in stand-up that don’t get a laugh but I love them so they stay.”
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“I like to pace onstage.”
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“Having done stand-up on television and in stand-up specials for like Comedy Central, you learn quickly that for that type of performance, you’re playing to the camera.”
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“When you have something that you did so many jobs on and were so front and center on, and then people dislike it, you want to learn lessons from it, and you want to move on, and you want to move on too fast.”
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“If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it’s truly funny, then it’s worth doing. Things aren’t worth doing for the sake of being controversial.”
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“The difficulty of getting a movie made through a major studio is so extreme that when a movie comes out, everyone should give it four stars because it was accomplished.”
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“Part of standup is being loose and having a good time yourself and that translates to the audience.”
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“Sometimes I – with comedy, it’s like someone liking you in high school. They either do, or they don’t. And when they don’t, they don’t. And that’s it. There are no appeals. You show up, and you’re like, ‘Hi! I’m -‘ and you stumble, and they’re like, ‘It’s over.'”
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“I never turn on the crowd. Sometimes, you think it’s a terrible show, and then afterward, sometimes people say they really liked it. So turning on the crowd is only going to alienate the few people who might like it.”
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“I love comedians that dive into politics. I personally don’t feel comfortable, with my background, weighing in unless I have a take that I think is funny enough that I would put it in front of an audience.”
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“Going on the road for long stretches can seem daunting, and I certainly miss being home sometimes, but the chance to see so many different cities, let alone perform in them, is something I am really grateful for.”
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“It’s important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don’t think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.”
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“An episode that is near and dear to my heart is the entire cast in one room for the night because we get bed bugs in our apartment building so we have to stay with Martin Short.”
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“I have found that people who really want to work at ‘Saturday Night Live’ and pursue it get pretty close. You have to be funny – but everyone who works there, it was their dream to work there. So it’s kind of nice in that way – there’s a lot of people who say, ‘I just always wanted to do this, and now I’m doing it.'”
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“As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don’t know, I just got quieter With my friends, I was still an extrovert.”
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“My childhood was completely dominated by Bill Clinton and the OJ trial. I don’t think we had a family dinner where one didn’t come up.”
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“My standup persona is like I’ll heighten things, but I’m observing the world as it is in sort of a heightened emotional state.”
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“Most open-mic experiences I had were okay.”
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“There’s [John Mulaney Show] jokes that I have in stand up that I wouldn’t try to put in, I would try to have someone just speak extemporaneously in the middle of a scene about an episode of “Law and Order” or something.”
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“I never turn on the crowd. Sometimes, you think it’s a terrible show, and then afterward, sometimes people say they really liked it. So turning on the crowd is only going to alienate the few people who might like it. What do I do in that situation? Get through it.”
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“I had a lot of fun writing things that died during dress rehearsal. Sometimes I remember the crazy ones that died even more fondly than the ones that did really well.”
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“If someone had written a review saying, ”Oh, Hello’ is stupid,’ we would have said, ‘Yeah, it is. You’re absolutely right.’ That people liked it was extremely cool.”
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“I don’t know if there’s a strategy really so much as, like I learned doing standup and had to learn fast, you always just try to give your favorite, strongest stuff as early as possible and you start with what you like the most.”
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“I never knew you were supposed to push off of your feet when you walked. And I tried it, and I walked much faster.”
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“It’s really fun to be writing and producing your own sketches. You almost have more control.”
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“You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.”
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“I do longer runs on things, a lot stories. I really like one-liners, I like a lot of different kinds of standup but I’ve always been long-winded.”
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“I don’t make plans anymore. So I’m not living minute to minute.”
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“I’ve done festivals in the past where I’d be a guest, it was like, Wow, maybe someday I could play Town Hall – but that’ll be a long way off. So it’s very exciting.”
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“It’s been very funny to try to act like an adult. Even getting dressed. Every day, I’m like, ‘Should I wear a blazer and walk around with an umbrella? Do I carry a briefcase?’ Because I’m trying to be some image of the adults I saw on TV growing up.”
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“”The Doula” was and is a very, very special episode to me because I think it’s very funny and very weird and it also is 100 percent based on my life, in that I fainted three times during Sex Ed in real life the three different years.”
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“The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.”
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“The best-case scenario is everything goes perfect and smooth, but we’re also a new and weird show. So all my conversations were, “Hey last night didn’t go perfect but we kind of know what we’ve got in store for everybody episode-wise.”
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“As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don’t know, I just got quieter… With my friends, I was still an extrovert.”
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“Everyone’s very relaxed about brand names in television.”
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“You’re like the kid at the sleepover who, after midnight, is like, ‘It’s tomorrow now.’ Get out of here with your technicalities. Just because you’re accurate doesn’t mean you’re interesting.”
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“If I was at the Comedy Cellar at midnight you yelled at the back of the room. But you, for television, play it to the camera because yes you’re communicating to the people at home using the studio audience that’s right in front of you as a guide for that.”
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“I was in Connecticut recently doing white people stuff…”
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“I also had Elliot Gould and Martin Short and Nasim Pedrad – let alone Zack Pearlman who is going to be a huge star, as is Seaton Smith – out there and I love writing for them and just sitting back and watching them be excellent. And when you are sitting across from Elliott Gould sharing a scene it just raises your game.”
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“I’m like an iPhone, it’s going to be worse versions of this every year, plus I get super hot in the middle of the afternoon for no reason.”
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“Understudies don’t normally get invited to openings.”
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“Now there’s new Nazis. I don’t care for these new Nazis and you may quote me on that.”
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“In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you’re doing it.”
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“Why do people shush animals? They just go ‘Shhh, hey, shhh.’ They’ve never spoken.”
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“I remember writing standup jokes without having done sets. But as soon as I did my first set, it didn’t matter. Everything I thought would work didn’t work. And everything I was iffy on was funny.”
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“I am very small and I have no money. So you can imagine the kind of stress that I am under.”
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“There are a lot of great jokes you can sit down and write, but that’s just a written joke, versus the comedy of the situation. Ideally, you’re pulling as much comedy out of the situation as you can.”
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“I quit drinking because I used to drink too much, then I would blackout, and I would ruin parties.”
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“I really set out to do this traditional looking and traditional sounding multi-cam sitcom, but then make the world as elastic as an animated show could be. Make the world as surreal as we wanted it to be.”
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“You remember being 12, when you’re like, ‘No one look at me or I’ll kill myself.'”
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“I like that idea that what I do might be mainstream. Might be.”
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“I don’t look older, I just look worse.”
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“I definitely look like a toddler. I feel comfortable and I have a lot of fun out there [John Mulaney Show]. And if I were to be extremely egotistical, I’d say I got a tiny bit better.”
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“College was like a four-year game show called ‘Do My Friends Hate Me or Do I Just Need To Go To Sleep?'”
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“Stand-up for me is just my opinions on things, so it wouldn’t be as fun translated into a sketch. Nor would a sketch be as fun if it were me standing there saying it.”
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“13-year-olds are the meanest people in the world.”
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“I’m a very straightforward person. But that’s fine for a comedian. Because a lot of times you’re talking about everyone else.”
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“My vibe is like, hey you could probably pour soup in my lap and I’ll apologize to you.”
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“It’s important to remember that life is a joke and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don’t think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.”
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“I’ll book a ticket on some garbage airline. I don’t wanna name an actual airline so let’s make one up, let’s just call it like Delta Airlines.”
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“I’ve always believed that you often needless. You don’t need to hear why people are friends, you don’t need to hear why people are roommates, you don’t need to hear why someone would help a friend to do something.”
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“I’ll keep all my emotions right here and then one day I’ll die.”
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“Occasionally you get that one person that says “I really like that one part of this joke” and you go, “Oh thank you that’s my favorite part too.” But no, in order for it to be authentic hopefully you have jokes that everyone can just get on board with and then you have a few things for yourself.”
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“I was once on the telephone with Blockbuster Video, which is a very old-fashioned sentence.”
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“People having expectations maybe means they’ve enjoyed what I’ve done.”
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“In terms of like, instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.”
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“I was new to acting on a stage in a narrative as opposed to acting on a stage as a stand-up. And like everything else it’s just like comfort level.”
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“The first time I did stand-up I was at a place called the B3 in New York on Third and Avenue B and I not only didn’t take the mic out of the stand, but I clutched the stand of the entire time.”
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“You all have a relative who is an expert even though they really don’t know what they’re talking about.”
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“I kind of thought, wouldn’t it be funny to take a swing at being on the weird side of mainstream?”
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“I like to turn on the TV and watch whatever’s on. Nick Kroll does that a lot. He doesn’t watch important shows. He’ll just turn on a documentary on Mia Hamm and watch it for an hour. Whatever’s on, we watch.”
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“Being president looks like the worst job in the world.”
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“I plan to join the ‘SNL’ band as a maraca player and stand behind saxophonist Lenny Pickett. That way they will at least cut to me before commercial breaks. I’ll be sure to look right into camera.”
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“You can’t always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.”
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“I like making fun of myself a lot. I like being made fun of, too. I’ve always enjoyed it. There’s just something really, really funny about someone tearing into me.”
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“Maybe I just have high self-esteem, but I have a lot that I really enjoy.”
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“I think for many of us – speaking for just a pocket of the country – we trusted Obama. So when you leave your baby with your mom to watch, you don’t run home and check the nanny cam. But now we’ve left the baby with Gary Busey, so we’re going to be a lot more on it.”
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“Comfort is everything. You start doing something and you want it to be perfect right away, but most babies are born ugly and then they shake it out and you get beautiful toddlers.”
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“Things have to be funny first, and if they want to have a point, that’s awesome.”
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“All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don’t understand it.”
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“It’s nice when you’re nervous and everybody’s like, “Yeah, you should be nervous.” Because a lot of times you’re anxious and people say, “Relax. Shut up.” And that just feels like, Well, I guess I’m also crazy.”
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“If you’re comparing the badness of two words and you won’t even say one of them [the n-word], that’s the worse word.”
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“I like when things are crazy. Something good comes out of exhaustion.”
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“I’ll book a ticket on some garbage airline. I don’t wanna name an actual airline so lets make one up, lets just call it like Delta Airlines”
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“Things don’t exist until they exist.”
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“I was always the squarest person in the cool room, and alternatively, sometimes the weirder person at the mainstream table.”
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“I’m a very lucky person. I’m an idiot, and I’ve shoveled through life rather nicely so far, so I don’t feel like I deserve good treatment.”
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“I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.”
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“Why do people shush animals? Theyve never spoken”
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“Excuse me: I am homeless. I am gay. I have AIDS. I’m new in town.”
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