With stand-up, it’s more interesting to hear about people’s failures than their successes.

Every time I’ve done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there’s always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they’re just, you know, doing kind of cheap...

I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love.

I don’t think you can describe your ideal girl. A big part of that is just meeting someone and really clicking with them and wanting to hang out with them all of the time.

I’m kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat.

With stand-up, I can have an idea, go down the street to a comedy club and work on it, flesh it out, book a venue, people will come, then film it. I do all that...

Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.

I guess after college, I just got really into food. I also think going on the road doing stand-up makes you more into food. Because when you travel like that, one of the things to...

Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That’s what we’re shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true.

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

Some comedians will tour and do these classic bits all the time. But now with YouTube and Comedy Central, people see your stuff, and they don’t want to hear you do that again.

I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn’t, but I thought: ‘What the hell?’ So I went to an...

One of the big things I miss about New York is not my friends so much; it’s Shake Shack, the burger place. I miss Shake Shack.

I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

I’m always down to try a new burger, but Shake Shack is still my top. What makes them so special is for the bread they use Martin’s potato rolls which is just the best hamburger...

I’m so jealous of people who have crushes on people they go to school with or work with. That’s such a blessing. You actually get to see them all the time and spend time with...

A lot of people my age think stand up sucks.

For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.

It’s the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.

Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.

London seems to be a town with a lot of comedy fans and people that really enjoy stand-up.

I have an amazing metabolism. I’m sure that’ll be gone one day. But I like to exercise, too, so I don’t think I’ll ever get really fat.

What’s cool about Twitter is that you can make a joke about something very of-the-moment or random that I wouldn’t be able to joke about in stand-up.

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it’ll flop. And...

The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.

It’s hard to really get that excited about movies. Think about it like this: how many good comedy movies come out a year? Maybe one or two? And then, in those movies, what are the...

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you’re not supposed to be the coolest guy.

Why would anyone get married and have babies? That’s the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard in my life. Or the scariest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.

Other than friends and family, my favorite things are New York and stand-up. I love doing comedy in New York – I can do way more stand-up here than in Los Angeles.

Like with ‘Parks and Recreation,’ it’s so much fun because the people writing it are funny and they’re open and you just go in there and have a good time. It’s pretty much the easiest...

Even in my stand-up, there’s a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes.

The whole idea of love is scary – so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There’s lots of research to...

One girl raved about a nice voicemail a guy had recently left her. I kindly requested she play it and heard this gem: ‘Hey, Lydia. It’s Sam. Just calling to say what’s up. Gimme a...

Most single people I know, myself included, have a difficult time even meeting up with the people they like, be it busy schedules, texting games, or whatever.

When I tour, it’s like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few...

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

I know my fan base is a smart group of people.

Myself, Eric Wareheim, and Jason Woliner decided to start a Food Club where the three of us go to restaurants with a couple of other people. The three of us are the captains of the...

Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they’re supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that....

I’m the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know...

I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.

You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don’t have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on. It’s the hardest thing.