I think, in comedy, you only hit about one or two great characters in your career. Sometimes my character will be just a sketch... what is the funniest situation to put this person in?
Every time I see Trump on TV these days, I'm waiting for him to burst out, 'Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!' That would make sense to me - that this has all been one long 'Saturday Night Live' sketch.
I think our 'Reno' cops are, basically, if you made us make fun of ourselves at a party. That is what we would do. We would do those characters and not really think about it. We didn't develop the characters; everyone just put on a name tag and started improvising.
'Weekend Update' can be presented as a full 20-minute sketch, and there's a lot of room there.
I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.
I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.
On 'Adam Ruins Everything' we do the broadest sketch comedy possible. We do stuff where you can see it immediately and know it's a joke - characters in big silly costumes; here's Uncle Sam and he's twiddling his fingers saying, 'Oh, I'm naughty.'
If you're going to do a spaghetti legs routine where else but in Rome to do it. The home of spaghetti!
