Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on.

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.