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I don’t know why, but it seems to be a common story for actors and comedians to have a tendency to be bad students and have difficulty focusing on things.
I’m prone to hyperbole.
I’m not handy.
My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we’ve been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.
I’m not very romantic. My idea of romance is more practical – like washing the car.
And I watch ‘Saturday Night Live’ religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.
I’m not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I do think I have giant, giant blind spots. It’s a very comfortable place to be.
I can’t grow a beard.
Everything I do from now on, I’ll have a mustache. I can promise you that. I don’t care who I have to convince. If you see me with a mustache in a movie or on stage in the future, you’ll know that I pitched the idea.
I’ve played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don’t get me wrong. But it can be characters I’m not as excited to explore.
My dad was a fiercely funny guy, and he and his brother would get on runs. So my younger brother and I were basically mimicking them when we started goofing off.
After my father passed away in 1989, I fell pretty hard for theater as an undergraduate at the University of Oregon. Before he died, he planted the seed that maybe I should look into performing.
I was a bouncer for, like, three months in Boston until everybody figured out that I should never be a bouncer. I’m so soft. I just have no aggression in me.
I think once I fail enough as a dad, I’ll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I’ll start looking to TV dads for advice.
I’m not taciturn and stoic.
People discuss parenting the way they talk about denominations of faith.
There’s nobody in my family that’s in performance or in the business in any way, so it was not something that was encouraged as a profession. It was more just encouraged as a personality trait.
I’m an obsessive sports fan, which my wife is incredibly patient about.
My favourite game is wiffle ball, a fake version of baseball with a plastic ball and bat that’s really for kids.
When you get on a comedy show, people assume you’re a comedian. I’d say I’m more of a comedy nerd.
Our house was a place where you were welcome to make an idiot out of yourself. Silliness was valued. My dad worked with foster kids in the foster care system, and I think silliness was a way for him to leaven things up.
There’s no private side to acting, which some people find hard. I’ve drawn inspiration from athletes. They manage to be themselves under the pressure of public scrutiny, and they have it much harder – they have to perform with people yelling at them.
I didn’t know that there was such a thing as butter carving. But then, I poked around a little bit. A quick Google search will show you 55,000 images of butter carvings, and they’re extraordinary.
I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I’m doing comedy.
My wife handles all of our technology. So if something goes wrong with the computer, I throw up my arms and step aside while the IT gal figures it out.
