Comedian

The idea that you must bathe every day is, to a certain extent, a manufacture on the part of the soap industry.

I am not an educator and I'm not a journalist. I am a comedian. But I do truly believe that the point of comedy is to make the world around one better.

The idea that you must bathe every day is, to a certain extent, a manufacture on the part of the soap industry.

In my moments of greatest hubris, I say to myself, 'Yes, you should be trying to change the world.'

The brutal fact is that which foods are available in your grocery store is determined by trade wars, agriculture policy, and the outsized power wielded by large corporations.

I have a lot of family in Marquette. I'm way more familiar with the U.P. than I am with the lower peninsula. I've visited Michigan every couple of years since I was a kid.

I wanted to go to grad school for philosophy, but I couldn't hack it in college, at least I couldn't at that level.

The journalistic and political classes are very eager to borrow the cultural authority of comedians when it suits them, sending out gala invitations and posing for photos in hopes that a bit of that edgy satirical shine will rub off on them.

I think people are better for having learned, even if they aren't happier.

I think that veganism is a totally great choice with incredible benefits, but I don't think it's reasonable to expect other people to be vegan or to expect everybody to be vegan. You can proselytize all you want, but being vegan is a pretty intense choice for a lot of people.

I don't want to change people's opinions to my political opinion; I want to enlighten people and make them think about the world differently.

I went to Bard College, which was a really interesting synthesis of a hippie school and a serious academic institution. It was really the perfect spot for me.

I have a vested interest in increasing the amount of diversity in my own business. That's something that I care about. So mentoring people who are trying to break into the business who could use a hand, that's the type of person I look for.

Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft.

That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.

I guess what's happened is that I've a little bit let go of the idea that we can reach everybody. Certain people... the informational world they live in, it's so distorted that it's hard to get through.

I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.

Comedy has no rules, per se.

I hate cars; in terms of what they do to nature and personally I just don't like driving them. I think they're a very bad way to design a transportation system.

I want to do stories that are about the bits of cultural furniture that are sitting there that we're like, 'Oh yeah, that's been there for years! What could possibly be weird about it?' And then we're going to lift that piece of furniture and look at all the bugs scurry away.