Quotes from Josh Gondelman

Often, when I leave the house, I dress for comfort. On my better days, I shoot for 'matching.'

When you're confined to a hospital bed, there aren't many appointments you can make. You await visits from friends and family members. You enjoy the coconut ice cream they smuggle in. You tolerate the erratic and invasive visits of doctors and nurses, hoping that one of them will bring you closer to going home.

Nonresidents have a tendency to rush their visits to Harlem.

I love Boston, and I had a very lovely childhood in Massachusetts.

'Are you sure you're going to be warm enough?' is a question I get a lot.

'The Big Lebowski' gave me my first false sense of intellectual superiority.

I grew up in Stoneham, a little suburb of Boston. It's pronounced 'Stone 'em' because Massachusetts doesn't bend to the will of 'how letters are supposed to be said.'

I've always been very un-fun. I'm a habit person. I have a very weak version of an addictive personality.

I don't want to have to be a teacher so I can be a comedian.

I don't resent at all people saying, 'Oh, he's like a sweetheart'... but within comedy, it's a very funny way to talk about someone because it usually means they don't have much of an act.

Given that I often wear shorts with a T-shirt, baseball cap, and backpack most days, a crew-neck shirt gives me the appearance of an undercover cop on the way to a sting operation at a summer camp.

The modern ease of catfishing has had the tangential effect of growing a cottage industry of websites offering the services of fake Internet girlfriends.

Even under the best circumstances, speaking at your own wedding ceremony is a high pressure endeavor. What even constitutes a vow? I always picture them as exclamations you bellow at the sky.

I was a weirdo, but a well-liked weirdo.

Along with 'Wet Hot American Summer' and 'The Room,' 'Lebowski' belongs in the canon of nouveau cult classics.

My general advice for writers/comedians is, make stuff you like and are proud of. Put it in a place where people can see it, whether that's onstage or on the Internet or wherever. Just do the things that make you happy creatively, and then show them to people.

Sure, sometimes I get teased for being the guy who likes everything, but I don't think of myself as someone apart from this world.

I grew up in the Boston suburbs and inherited a stubborn New England refusal to acknowledge frigid temperatures.

A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh.

I feel like, in Boston, I was a little too complacent. I could get on stage when I wanted. I didn't feel like I was pushing myself. I could get work in New England and not have to travel too much.

There are very funny people who aren't good at Twitter and people who are really good on Twitter where that's the best or the only thing they do. There are some people I know that don't write creatively outside of Twitter, but they're so good at Twitter.

I live very gently.

Big romantic gestures are only as strong as the relationships they happen in.

Toughing out the winter is a dedication to my heritage, both in terms of not going 'soft' by kowtowing to nature's volatility and staying physically close to my family in New England. I don't run from that kind of pressure.