I'm an optimist at heart.
— Ben Falcone
I think giving yourself permission to be weird is amazing. After all what does it mean to be normal?
It's much more fun, I think, to watch something physical than just heads talking to each other. I like watching people fall down and push each other.
I have a couple of really hard, weird laughs every day.
I think there's nothing better than a comedy that also is not afraid to have those heartfelt moments.
When I was a kid, I was mostly pretty sane. I've gotten more hypochondriacal.
I guess I'm weirder than I thought, particularly as I think about me as a dad.
It's in my wheelhouse to be creepy, as a person.
I like to grill, like a standard guy. I like to grill steaks and fish.
If you are trying to be happy and trying to be kind, you've already won.
So much of improv can be really long, and that's kind of what makes it funny.
Really hard laughs, they've gotta make you live longer or something.
Dan Aykroyd is a comedy icon and one of my idols of all time, but I also know that he's an incredibly great actor.
I probably get most of my inspiration through music.
The one thing I did know - because I've seen many, many of the road trip movies that everyone thinks about - is that death to a road trip movie happens when you spend too much time in the car.
I'm not much of a joke writer.
I think 'weird' is an interesting way to say 'unique.' It has a strange connotation, but weird is good. If you embrace your weirdness, you'll be on the way to becoming who you are.
Since I was a kid, I've always loved hanging out with females.
I can safely speak for Melissa when I say both of our plans when we moved to L.A. was probably very similar, which was, 'If I can make any kind of a living doing something I really enjoy, then, hooray.'
Melissa and I both say we don't write very good jokes.
My best parenting advice would be not to take the job too seriously. Teach your kids to be nice, and everything else falls into place.
I listen to the Avett Brothers all the time. I find their music interesting and introspective.
When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.
