I’m an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I’m not gonna frighten off social conservatives.
There has been this belief among the Catholic community – and this – I’m no expert, this is my opinion – that cafeteria Catholics are wrong.
As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.
I’m closer to Bob Newhart than Rodney Dangerfield.
Yeah, I am a character actor.
I think when I started doing stand-up, that’s when I really tried to question everything in my belief system which is – I think a pretty important part of being a comedian is really questioning things.
What exactly are the ingredients of Ranch dressing? Mayo and disappointment?
I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting – a bunch of people that don’t wanna grow up.
Imagine you’re drowning, and someone hands you a baby.
Faith is something that’s – it’s hard to articulate. It’s – there’s – it’s not based on logic.
It’s kind of hard to articulate, but, like, this notion of mercy, forgiveness, was very appealing for me. It was very profound. And it had a deep impact, and I think it still does.
Even when you hear about a comedian getting married, among comedians, we’re always kind of like, what are they doing?
I went to a Catholic University and there’s something about being a Catholic-American. You know, St. Patrick’s Day is, I’m Irish-Catholic. There’s alcoholism in my family. It’s like I’ve got to be Catholic, right?
I love stand-up comedians. I really do.
I don’t want to pick a team. I want to make people laugh and hopefully bring some – be humorous about the human experience, you know, whether they’re people of any stripes of life.
I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.
You didn’t question – kind of like, you would go to college. You would wear a tie to work. You would, you know, you would work for 40 years. And then you would play golf for three years, and then you would die. That was how I was raised.
I never went to church when I was in college, either.
I would say my return to my faith is – it’s a very personal thing.
Some people that work for Hot Pockets came to my Denver Paramount Theater show. They brought these hot pocket boxes the size of suit cases for me to sign. I wrote “these are WMD’s” on the boxes. The HP people seem to have a good sense of humor about all of it.