I went from being the shy weirdo to the class clown in a couple of years.
— Thomas Middleditch
I'm a bit of a curmudgeon. I don't like Valentine's Day and New Year's and Halloween.
There are lot of people I'd wanna work with, but Wes Anderson, I would just wanna sit down with the guy. If he would ever put me in one of his movies, that would be the end.
At the end of the day, I want to play characters that interest me.
I like a nice, crisp pilsner or lager.
I'm into computers and have been for a while.
I'm not joking - it's a top-three dream of mine to be on a comedy on HBO and to have it directed by Mike Judge and Alec Berg, and then on top of that, have it be with friends, two of them I've known for 10 years.
I don't typically pay attention to most things in life, let alone award season. Not because I think it's silly. I just don't typically get caught up in it.
I just love action movies. People are like, 'What comedy movies did you grow up watching?' And I'm like, 'Not many.'
I think it's pretty silly that people wear boxers. You're wearing shorts under your pants. They're shorts.
Scorsese is very nice. He's small; he's energetic.
Game design has always been a secondary passion. I don't know how to program, though, so I'm at this strange crossroads where I'm like, 'I wonder if I can convince people who know what they're doing to hear me out on one of my ideas.'
Improv is always seen as something that's funny, but worth a $5 ticket, $10 at most. I think ISC is one of those shows that is worth a real ticket price. It's hard-hitting and great and different every time.
Just, you know, respect animals and the planet. And don't vote Trump.
Married life is the same as dating life, except now you have a ring, and the state of California has a vested financial interest in the outcome of your marriage.
I know, for myself, I probably work a lot better in that - in the group environment. Only because if I am coming up short, someone else helps.
I'm a PC guy.
I was just a bit of a loner as a young boy. And very, very sensitive. Ever the emotional young thing.
I wasn't necessarily always funny, I don't know if I necessarily am - some would argue not - but I was definitely, always been a strange one. Definitely always an odd duck.
Over the years, I've had a slight ebbing and flowing of confidence in my non-comedic role abilities.
A lot of comedies, I think, make the wrong choice of having the straight man being this bland emotional conduit for the audience.
I repurposed an old World War II merchant ship door into one of the best coffee tables you have ever seen. I have also made little cabinets and media centers.
Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.
I did a brief visit at Google X, and they have these little push scooters that you can go from one end of the compound to the other, and the floors are very smooth to maximize efficiency of the push scooters.
I understand what scripting and programming is, but do I know how to do it? Not really. But, I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what 'Silicon Valley' has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.
I was a little bit of a tech lord. Not a lord. More of a duke or a nobleman. I was into that stuff as a kid. Nothing too crazy.
As a kid, I drew comics. I had curly hair. I liked to joke, but I was kind of nervous about it at first until it was coaxed out of me.
It's like PlayStation-Xbox. I like both. So nothing against Mac, but I do use Windows.
You can't predict the future, and you've got to go with your gut on these things, and I'm sure if you speak to a laundry list of CEOs and people who have gone through the startup process themselves, they'll say it's an endless hurdle race, and you are inevitably going to catch your legs on hurdles, and it's just how you roll with that.
It's not about creating 22 episodes indefinitely for as long as you can do.
I think when you go in, with film or television, you want to tell this narrative. And with 'Joshy,' you want it to be grounded with moments - it's not like, 'Everyone be as funny as you can, quickly, at all times!' It's not like that. You have to pick the right improvisers.
Both the benefit and the terrifying aspect of standup is when it's going poorly, you've only yourself to blame. There's no one to bail you out. But when it's going great, all that approval is for you.
I'm kind of a sports guy.
I like my flight sims because I can set up a very robust joystick setup and my head tracking software.
I'm a military history buff.
I want to work with Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, the Coen Brothers, or Spike Jonze.
Sometimes, when comedians get success, they don't do as much weird stuff as they normally do.
I am an unabashed HBO fan. This is why being on 'Silicon Valley' is kind of like a dream.
I don't program, so I don't belong in Silicon Valley. If I did belong in Silicon Valley, I'd be there creating a revolutionary compression algorithm for billions of dollars.
I'm definitely not frowning on improv; I mean, I've been doing it for years. I just think that there's some styles of comedy that warrant a tighter pace.
I don't think anyone sets out to be the evil villain.
I've been a Keanu Reeves fan for a very long time, since 'Bill and Ted' and 'Point Break' and stuff like that.
I still like farts. I still think farts are some of the funniest things.
Basically, if you like 'Deadpool,' you'll love 'Captain Underpants.'
I'm a Windows guy. I have been for many, many years. I play games, and it's where games run, baby.
Everybody in comedy has something like that happen to them: They bomb, or no one shows up. You're like, 'Hey, I'm funny, trust me!' And the world collectively goes, 'Yeah, you and everybody else.'
It's pretty surreal to be doing a show on HBO with pals.
My nerdy pursuits are more like video games, Dungeons and Dragons, stuff like that.
Ricky Gervais, met him a couple times. He wouldn't remember it.
People go on Snapchat - I don't understand it. It's the first app I felt, 'Oh no, I'm out of touch with burgeoning technology. I'm not 16!'
