When Rob Corddry flew into the Moscow-Pullman Regional Airport on Wednesday, there was a sense of familiarity.

First came the terminal. Then the unique landscape. Finally, while riding along Airport Road, the defining landmark appeared.

“I saw the bear preserve, or whatever the f--- that is, and I was like ‘I’ve been here before,’” said Corddry, who performed in Moscow in 2006. “And then I asked Melanie, and she was like, ‘You were here three years ago,’ and I was like f--- because I’m doing the same show.” For Corddry, who performed in front of hundreds Wednesday in the CUB Ballroom, the journey to comedic fame is a game of luck.

“I do fake stand-up,” he said. “I can do stand-up for about five minutes, maybe 10, then stand-up starts to take real skill, which I don’t have. I’m just really faking it and demeaning the art.” Corddry, mostly known for his work on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” comes from a “sarcastic family full of assholes,” he said. As a kid, his family would spend hours making fun of one another and others.

Nate, his younger brother, went on to become a comedian. Corddry said his parents were funny in their younger years.

“My parents think they’re funny, but they’ve become much more earnest,” he said. “When people get past 60, they tear up a lot and rather then make a sarcastic joke, they just wipe the tears out of their eyes. And I don’t know why they’re regretful or yearning for the days of old.” A BOOZY BEGINNING In 1990, Corddry enrolled as a journalism major at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He remained in the major for less than 24 hours.

“When I got to school, I realized that what I really wanted to do was become an alcoholic,” he said.

Corddry, who majored in English, said he succeeded at his collegiate goal.

Now that he’s married with two children, he avoids most hard alcohol and sticks with his favorite drinks – a Maker’s Manhattan in winter and fall, a margarita in the spring and summer, and plenty of red wine.

“I’m a functional alcoholic,” he said. “I moderate for the sake of my family. I am a very good dad and husband. But there are one or two nights a year I almost die of alcohol poisoning.” He no longer smokes marijuana because it makes him paranoid and doesn’t go down well with alcohol, he said.

“I’m 38 years old. My hangovers feel like cancer,” he said. “These quaint little things you call a hangover are nothing. You just wait.

THE BIG BREAK Corddry auditioned for “The Daily Show” in 2002, after the show saw him perform with Comedy Central’s “Upright Citizens Brigade.” He said he made it on to the show because of his improvisation skill, which he claims is his only comedic talent.

“Only about a quarter of that stuff is written ahead of time,” he said. “With interview subjects, you never know what you are going to get.” He starred on the show as a correspondent until 2006. For his final season, he hosted the popular “This Week in God” segment.

For Corddry, the character’s bombastic, cocky attitude came natural.

“It’s definitely a really comfortable character for me, and if that means I am cocky in real life, you would have to ask my wife,” he said.

He said his wife, Sandra, would say that he works hard to appear confident.

“It’s easy for me to play dumb,” he said. “I think it’s funnier when dumb people don’t know they are dumb and in fact think they are really smart. Kind of all ‘The Daily Show’ characters are like that.” Corddry said the best part of the show was how different it was from his normal assortment of roles as the “second banana or the asshole best friend.” “The best thing was doing really relevant comedy, being able to make fun of stuff that you read about that morning,” he said. “I will probably never get the chance to do that again. I guess the only other chance I’ll ever have to do that is on Twitter, and I don’t. I do poop jokes on Twitter.” Corddry takes little credit for writing the show, which he said is almost entirely Stewart’s work. Corddry said he respects Stewart’s vision, but it’s not always easy.

“In person he is so diminutive that it’s kind of baffling,” he said. “Every time you see him, you freak out for a second because he’s so f---ing small. Then you remember he’s your boss, and you like working with him.” “NOT-SO-SECOND BANANA ROLES?” Though Corddry claims “The Daily Show” destroyed all his improvisational talent, he has been busy at work for the past three years.

He is working on the second season of “Childrens’ Hospital,” a satirical take on the medical show genre that he writes, directs and stars.

The first season of “Childrens’ Hospital” aired online. The second season is in what he described as a low-stakes bidding war between Comedy Central and Adult Swim.

“Dr. Blake Downs is a clown doctor, and he has sort of lost his way,” he said. “He’s probably the least funny character in the show. He’s just sort of one of those guys who’s completely bereft and is always struggling to get back to some sort of glory days. And he’s a sex offender.” Corddry is also working on what he said was another film of great importance, “Hot Tub Time Machine,” as well as cameos on “The Daily Show” and various TV shows and movies.

In the future, he said he would like to find a hobby. Some ideas include photography, reading, comic books and ritualistic murder.

“I like the ritual, it’s comforting,” he said. “I don’t want to slash somebody. I want it to be of some importance.”