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Comedy chose me.
Nothing is guaranteed.
I think Carrot Top is hilarious.
I'm a Scorpio. I have different mood swings.
Anything to do with 'The Office' I would revisit.
Ever since I can remember, I've always been silly.
I so respect Sundance. I'd been hearing about it for years.
I can bring a crowd down. There should be a contest for that.
Always wanted to go to Germany... probably one of my top ten.
You've got to talk to your kids as both a parent and a friend.
That's the most gratifying thing in the world, helping each other.
As a comic and as an actor, I think you've got to be partially crazy.
I have a sound. It's called 'funk mixed with stank.' That's what I do.
Who knows if I would get to do 'Mr. Robot' if I was on 'Mr. Robinson?'
Coming up with comedy is hard, man. Those bits aren't easy to think of!
Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal.
I have a phrase I say: 'What the damn?' It's my favorite. It just came to me one day.
It's good to do something different than the subtleties of 'The Office' all the time.
I do - I do enjoy a good rom-com here and there. Would 'A Fish Called Wanda' be a rom-com?
Jason Behr and Amanda Brooks were cool to work with. Jason and I are fast friends to this day.
I probably have more words to say in 'Mr. Robot' than I've had in my entire career put together.
I'm a performer. I do comedy and music, and I blend them together. My band is 'Nasty Delicious!'.
I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block.
I love the deadpan. It's such a strong go-to. It lets the audience make their own decisions about what you're thinking.
I think fans are going to get everything you'd expect from 'The Office', from awkwardness, to a lot of humor and heart.
I hear a lot of girls say, 'I can be myself around you,' and I'm always thinking, 'Who are you when you're with somebody else?'
My father tried to discourage me from going into comedy, mainly because he felt like it wasn't promising. It was pie in the sky.
A music teacher. It was in the inner city at a school called Horace Mann. I think I was most effective when the kids pissed me off.
The end of 2016, Mariah Carey got on stage, and it was mean. The technical difficulties that she came across, now everybody think that she was lost.
I never wanted to do just one thing. There's even other things in comedy that I want to do. For me, it's always been that I have to have the vision first.
That's when I'm at my rawest. When I'm performing with the band. It's just like the groove is going, whether we're fast or slow, I can just transport myself.
I think I, and the audience, would enjoy a kissing scene with me and Rihanna. That would've been cool for me to see, rehearse, practice, and all that. Me and Rihanna.
Even in comedy, you have to be real. It's all about being real. It's how real can you be? That's the challenge. How much are you willing to take on for your character?
'Peeples' is definitely not 'Meet the Parents'. It's more a movie about family secrets. It does explore class issues somewhat, but it's mostly about living your own truth.
Doing voiceover is so much fun because you can play with the lines as much as you want. You can put a whole bunch of energy into it, jump up and down, whatever you got to do.
My main goal is to connect with the crowd. I leave room for improv. Whatever happens, happens. When I bring my band with me, it turns into the Craig Robinson comedy dance party.
In acting, you get to that place where it's serene, where you just feel it. I'm glad to be doing the drama because you can kind of take your time more and let a moment live more.
I understand the importance of mentorship for young people, even outside their parents. That's more important now than ever. You gotta have that support system everywhere you can.
The thing that makes you a good 'Caraoke Showdown' singer is you gotta have some knowledge of these songs. You gotta be ready to attack. You gotta shut your brain off and just go.
My mother is a retired music teacher. She taught me in high school, and she would take us and put us in these madrigal groups. We would go to a museum or whatever and just perform.
I was in a TV show called 'Lucky' on FX. The casting director from 'Lucky' was casting 'Dragon Wars'. She called me in to meet with the producer and audition, and I got it from there.
My parents did the whole good-cop/bad-cop thing - Dad was the bad cop, and Mom was the good cop. I remember my father saying, 'I'm his father, not his friend.' That kind of stuck with me.
I think I said something mean when I was little, and my mother snapped on me. I was just like, 'I'm sorry!' I could relate. If I had cursed out my dad, I probably would be just waking up.
I was in my early twenties. I was 22-ish. I graduated from college and went right into teaching. The first year, I taught in Indiana at a couple schools, and then I moved over to Chicago.
A bunch of comedians have gotten in 'trouble' for sharing their views. When an actor or an artist or might come out saying something political or whatever, then it becomes about that view.
I got a call from my manager saying, 'Howie Mandel wants to talk to you.' And I'm a comic - big fan of all he's done. He was pitching me 'Caraoke Showdown', and I was just excited about it.
I'm just looking at Twitter like, 'Ooooooo.' No, I don't engage, but it's great. There's so many avenues to get your entertainment on; you've got so many people invested in this. I love it.
I've had some good moments at karaoke. Back in the day, oh my gosh... before, I was more in the public eye. Nowadays, I don't do it as much because if you do, it's going to be on the Internet.
When I start thinking about a role, I read the script a few times and then let it sink in - and then take some time to develop how that character is going to play out and what he's going to do.
We even did a re-imagining of 'Spider-Man' that James Franco starred in that didn't make it into 'This Is The End'. That didn't make the final cut, but I wouldn't be surprised if it made the DVD.