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I'm a very jaded and cynical person.
You are literally too stupid to insult.
Shouldn't EVERY week be Infection Control Week?
Alcohol causes conflicts, firearms resolve conflicts.
I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
I've always been into toys and kits and models. I'm kind of a toy nerd.
I think the culture of Civil War re-enacting is also incredibly fascinating.
People now genuinely respond to it and associate me with music. It's really fun.
The improv stuff, that's always surprising so a lot of times that's really funny.
[I read news] because no one's going to tell me what they really think of something.
As much as you do get beat-up doing even small action sequences, it's incredibly fun.
I'm pretty sure no one's reading action scripts saying, 'This has got to be Ed Helms.'
I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship.
As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination.
There are currently more political parties in Iraq than unbombed buildings to hold them.
I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.
I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
Who among us wouldn't rush out and buy a Pepsi if we thought it would make the Osborne's disappear?
I think that music at inappropriate times with inappropriate volumes can be the funniest thing ever.
Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.
So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.
Chickens are a symbol of chaos. Wherever you stick a chicken, unless it's a chicken farm, it's just chaos.
That's actually a rare thing to be on a set full of people that you admire and make you laugh all the time.
I'm the worst in The Office. It's a problem. They've had to shut down the set for like 30 minutes because of me.
I have profound respect for Sacha Baron Cohen, but Borat is not a particularly comfortable movie for me to sit through.
The piano song that I do in the movie [The Hangover], it's a great example, that was never - that wasn't in the script.
Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.
I cannot stress this enough - if you try to install an HDTV in a non-HDTV compatible house, you may tear the space-time continuum.
It was never tough [ being the new guy]. It's just the warmest group of people [The Office stuff] you could ever hope to work with.
This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
The Daily Show was an incredible training ground for that kind of thing. It was all about discipline and generating material constantly.
The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing was born out of improv.
There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with.
Working on The Daily Show, I co-produced all those field segments, and that's another huge thing.I probably did more than 100 field segments.
There really aren't any deletes [in The Hanover movie]. There's like one or two deleted scenes but they're not important or meaningful scenes.
They [Mike Tyson and Todd Phillips] actually struck up a really pretty incredible chemistry, those two, and I think they really trusted each other.
Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.
I've been to Indonesia, but I've never been to Thailand. I hear the people are lovely, the food is delicious, and that the heat and humidity are lethal.
When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.
Improvisation is about finding the best joke or the silliest way to get something across. Improvising conflict is always fun because you can just go for it.
When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.
You see a lot of sides of people on a movie set because it can be really taxing and to kind of go through all that together - you really get to know someone.
I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.
When I was 15 I lost a tooth and had an implant put in. Cut to 20 years later, I'm doing this part [Andy Bernard] and the script calls for my character to lose a tooth.
Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.
Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. So I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.
Whenever I've messed around with radio-controlled things, there's always been a part of me that's thought, I wonder if there might actually be a little guy piloting these vehicles.
First there was the New Hampshire primary, and we had nearly a year leading up to it. And now, look! Three primaries in one weekend! How many of these things are they going to have?
I love travel. I love to go spend time in new places. And even though I got horribly sick in Thailand, and it was the sickest I may have ever been in my life, I still loved the trip.