All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything.

Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.