- Nov 07, 2020
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started at 'SNL,' I was lucky to start early. So now starting on 'Update,' I am the age when most people are when they start doing that. It feels like a different world and capacity, like starting over in another challenge. A heightened challenge.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning to be your natural self in front of five cameras and a silent studio takes time. Trying to be funny under duress is probably a lot like trying to play golf relaxed under pressure.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I went to a meeting at the 'Harvard Lampoon,' I had no idea that there was even a comedy magazine at Harvard, let alone that you could write comedy potentially for a living.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always tell people, when they ask me what to do to be a writer or to be a performer, the key is to go to a place where there are a lot of other people who are trying to do the same thing as you and taking it very seriously.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've played at the Comedy Studio. I never did as an undergrad, but I have in recent years, whenever I've gone back to anything at Harvard, I've tried to go there and do some sets.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought about 'being' in comedy when I grew up, because I didn't know it was a real job. But looking back, it's the only thing I ever really cared about.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're around people who are trying to be funny all day and trying to one-up each other, that's just naturally - if you want to do it - it's going to make you better.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really excited about Jordan Spieth. Like a great in any sport, when the moment is the biggest, he performs his best.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a 12-handicap.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each week, we might write 500 jokes for 'Weekend Update,' and ultimately, we can only do about 10.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first joke I ever told on stage was a golf joke.
- Olympics
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 10, I went to the Junior Olympics for the 50-meter and 100-meter breaststroke.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I commuted an hour and a half each way to high school in N.Y.C. I took a bus, a ferry, then a subway.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I majored in the history and literature of Russia and Britain. It has not helped my career.
- Island
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- Nov 07, 2020
Staten Island is segregated, but it's also - I don't know. It's, like, it's not - it's not unprogressive.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never came out to the Hamptons when I was younger - it was always a fancy and exotic place.
- City People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I chose to buy a house in Montauk because it has a sleepier vibe than the rest of the East End. I also felt that I would run into city people in East Hampton and wanted more of a buffer.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Montauk is a little more raw and rugged than the other parts of the Hamptons, and I like that.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having Twitter on your phone is like being with a journalist that hates you 24 hours a day. Anything you say on that can be spun. Truly, that's what you have to think of it as.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, 'That's how it is.' I never thought that was the exception.
- Benefiting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did go to college with him, but everyone's always like, 'Did you meet Mark Zuckerberg? Did you hang out with him?' and I'm like, 'No,' because he was in a lab creating Facebook, and I was, like, learning about alcohol. Well, we did go to school, and I think I'm not really benefiting from that relationship in any way.
- Harvard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at Harvard when Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, and I begged him not to do it.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not an easy job to think creatively and then also have to think logistically.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you're pitching movies, sometimes you know what the idea is, but you fully don't know the dimensions of it.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you contribute to food banks or give money that goes to having meals delivered, you're meeting the most basic need. It's such a direct way to help.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020