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Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don’t work.

Bill Hader

I always felt better co-writing something – always co-writing. Because if I was the lead of it and it failed, then it failed on my own accord. I would say, “Well, I liked it or I screwed up. I take the hit on this one.”
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Accord Wells Writing
If a guy doesn’t like a funny girl, something is wrong with him.
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Funny Girl Guy Life
I move out here, and next thing I know I’m 25, and the only thing I’ve heard is, ‘Can you get a coffee, can you hurry up with the thing, blah blah blah.’
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Coffee Moving Nice
I can’t cook. I can barely make a bowl of cereal.
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Bowls Cereal Cooks
Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright – getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
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Enough People Television
Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don’t work.
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Comedy Thing Way Work
Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.
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Afraid Comedy Failing
I have nothing, I have no props.’ And that was Andy Samberg. And Andy Samberg said he was looking at me going, ‘Oh, that guy has no props. He doesn’t need props.’ And that was the first time we met, was in that elevator.
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Country Look Need Nothing People Props
I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.
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Character Enjoy Italian Names
The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.
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Audience Best Things Do Things
My dad’s from there, and I have relatives there, but I don’t think I’ve been to Chicago since I was like 9.
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Country Dad Thinking
I would say the biggest difference is that you’re just in a studio by yourself when you’re making an animated movie. You don’t have anybody to play off of.
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Animated Differences Play
It was nice doing something and hearing someone go, ‘Hey, you’re good at this.’
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Good Guy Hearing Something
The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.
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California Ideas Song
All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.
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Driving Emotion Stories
I remember getting in the elevator for my audition and there was a guy next to me who had a backpack full of props and wigs and things, and I went, ‘Oh, my God, that guy is so prepared,
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Elevator Guy Needs Wigs

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