I love Brody Stevens. He's one of my favorite stand-ups.
— Brett Gelman
I'm Jewish, so it's like I'm not totally white. I'm, like, gray.
Jason Woliner and I have been longtime friends and collaborators.
I get to live a privileged existence.
I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.
I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny. I think that life is very dark at times, and there are things that are very funny about that.
Use your imaginations, and use your empathy. If you don't do that, you're limiting yourself as an artist, and you're hurting the world.
A crazy action only works if there's a great reaction.
I'm not a fighter. I don't like to get beat up.
A lot of times, comedic actors are discriminated against. People just assume they can't do something other than what they do, rather than thinking, 'Oh, wait - doing what they do normally is really hard.'
I think that liberal straight white men really need to stop patting themselves on the back for what they think they think and actually take a look at their actions.
I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.
Even if somebody is maybe a little less qualified, you can bring them in, you can teach them, and it will also make your work better because you'll have different perspectives. Even if somebody is less talented, they're coming at it from a completely different perspective, and that helps your work.
I'm a straight white man - I have options, and I'm not blocked on a consistent basis when I wake up in the morning because of my race, sex, and orientation.
Nobody wants to see a woman onscreen who is a wreck. That is pure, unadulterated, systemic misogyny.
There are not many people that I respect more than rappers. I'm a huge fan of hip hop. It's incredible, one of the most influential things to me. It takes real genius to be able to do well. It's a very deep art form.
Talking is not action. Don't just look at what you say. Look at how you socialize.
Every white liberal straight man needs to take action and work at unifying all peoples of our sides and stop making women and people of color and the LGBT community fight it out themselves and just pat them on the back. We have to take active roles in supporting them, defending them, and hiring them.
We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times.
Really go out of your way to hire women, people of color, homosexuals, transgendered people - go out of your way to hire them.
