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Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what’s the avant-garde of comedy.

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I like dry-to-the-bone stuff. I don’t know what it is. I was raised on PBS showing weird British comedies.

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There is no ‘recycle too much.’ That’s an oxymoron.

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The Internet is a good way to try some stuff with no big crew and no money being spent. Since there are no stakes to it, you can try to be a little experimental.

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You can tell a lot about a person by what comedians they like.

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My dad did show me interesting movies at a young age. I remember he showed me ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ and my mom said, ‘I never want to see this movie in my house again.’

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Portland is a place where everyone closes their eyes and crosses their fingers and hopes for a better community. They keep it small and local, and usually they think if they just make great coffee, it’s the best thing for the neighborhood.

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I want to work with extremely, genuinely charismatic people.

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I know comedy; I know how to do crazy, off-the-wall stuff that makes me laugh out loud.

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I loved ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse.’ That was one of the most influential movies ever. You know that genre with the nerdy girl, and she redeems herself in the end. Like ‘Napoleon Dynamite.’ And in ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse,’ she doesn’t. She sucks. It’s like, that’s what’s real. That’s what’s heartbreaking.

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When people feel vulnerable, they make slapstick decisions.

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Louie Anderson thinks my thing is the absurdness of reality. That’s what we do on ‘Portlandia’ all the time. I try to bring that absurdness of reality to everything.

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It’s exciting being in the present. You’re always reading emails, talking about the future, looking at pictures on Facebook of the past. But living in the present? It’s almost a dead medium. I almost want to do a sketch about being in the present.

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I am huge fan of Australian comedy. ‘Strictly Ballroom‘ is one of my favorite movies. Definitely the British Commonwealth‘s sensibility is where I draw a lot of my influences.

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Everything else was snarky and high concept, while ‘Roseanne’ was just a normal family.

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I definitely feel the pressure to keep things fresh and original.

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I always look at ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail.’ They talked about how they wrote this movie with horses, and then they realized that horses are super-expensive and time-consuming. ‘Why don’t we just change it to coconuts?’ That’s part of my process.

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Certain shows, when it’s all comedy, it’s like when you eat something that’s too sweet and it just tastes gross. You need that salted caramel.

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Comedy is like horror – you have to shock something in the viewer‘s system to make them feel it.

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In your twenties, you might want to be radical and change the world, but in your thirties, you might just want to be happy and ground yourself.

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I always want to push myself.

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‘Fawlty Towers‘ was a huge influence on me. I mean, it was so slapstick, too. ‘Are You Being Served?’ was on 15 times a day, it seemed like, and I loved it.

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Things that people are doing constantly but aren’t thinking about. That’s the ultimate ‘Portlandia’ concept.

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I love the beige, tan, stucco world where the sun bleaches things out to the point that it can look somewhat ugly.

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I’m a huge ‘Twin Peaks‘ fan.

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‘Portlandia’ is 100 percent improvised, and I came into this business not knowing anything.

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On ‘Baskets,’ I’m not sure what the demographic is.

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I look at a show like ‘Roseanne.’ That’s super influential on me. It’s very funny, very real, with real problems. That was a big influence, and I don’t know if you see that all the time in the network world.

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With all the outlets, if you have a strong comedic voice, there’s a venue to do your thing. It’s a bit of a meritocracy, where the best stuff rises to the top.

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I love working with nonactors.

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When you make a pilot, you’ve never seen the show before; you don’t know what it is.

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You can use cheap technology to get a great look.

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Everything on TV is perfect, and it’s so boring.

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You see a lot of comedic content that’s not funny, and you can tell that it’s supposed to be funny, but it’s actually not funny.

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Different actors have different rhythms. My goal as a director is to let these guys get their best work out.

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I’m never trying to make something esoteric; it just happens.

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Portland is utopia. My favorite thing would be it’s earnestness. I am earnest, too.

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It’s how you define yourself. It’s not Nirvana or Pearl Jam: it’s, ‘Do you watch ‘Portlandia’ or ‘Amy Schumer’?’ It relates to a specific sense of humor. And, ‘Do you know the hidden gems?’ Like, if you knew the Pixies in the ’80s.

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I saw Sleater Kinney perform back when I was in college.

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My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh. At least that’s where everything starts, and then my other through line would be a dry absurdity that exponentially spirals out of reality.

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Nobody sets out to be evil. They’re insecure, and they make bad decisions.

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I went to film school, and I came in when video art was king, weird stuff was king, and there, you don’t have a script as your bible.

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A lot of the ‘Portlandia’ characters and a lot of the moments aren’t really TV-worthy, but that’s what is so refreshing about seeing them.

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Once the big lights come in, you can feel self-conscious. How can you capture the scene without ruining it and freezing people up? You keep it small and lean.

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