It seems like that last piece is causing some confusion. Just to clarify, here’s the full quote from Mantzoukas (from Pete Holmes’ podcast):

Don’t think everything you do has to be funny… All you need to do is be interesting be specific, and if you need to be quiet for a while, that’s fine… Jokes and bits in an improv show are defense mechanism for people that don’t know what they’re doing.

He’s not condoning crazy town, he’s actually warning against it.

I guess I should have selected a better excerpt from that quote to illustrate. If you have ideas for quotes that are more clear in their message, you should submit!