“Hosting a game show is so bizarre and uniquely its own thing. Anytime I'm hosting something, I try to bring as much of myself to it as I can, but it's always going to be incomplete.” TryingI CanShowsGamesBizarreIncompleteGame Shows Author:Michael Ian Black
“As a game-show host, what I'm thinking and what I'm experiencing doesn't matter. My opinion doesn't matter. So there's a flattened reality to it. It's fun to do. But it's certainly not myself in totality - or even maybe a little bit.” ThinkingLittlesMatterShowsRealityGamesFunBitsOpinionLittle BitHostTotalityGame Shows Author:Michael Ian Black
“Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.” ShowsGamesTalk ShowsGame Shows Author:Michael Ian Black
“I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.” ThinkingArchitecture Author:Michael Ian Black
“You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.” ShowsGamesCasesArchitectureLiteralNavigateLead InImpliedContestantsGame Shows Author:Michael Ian Black
“I've never joined any political party and have no plans to do so. I'm fully independent.” PoliticalPartyPlansIndependentPolitical Parties Author:Ron Reagan
“With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.” WantMomentsWhat You WantBe YouConstraints Author:Michael Ian Black
“Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff.” WantDoneStuffCreatingEvolvePersonaContradicting Author:Michael Ian Black
“It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way, and over however many tweets, you start to create a character for yourself.” WayWritingCharacterDown AndDeliberateTweetPutting Yourself Out There Author:Michael Ian Black
“The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them.” WritingLittlesPersonsCharacterResemblance Author:Michael Ian Black