Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.
People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.
One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.
If a culture doesn't allow you to laugh at the leaders or at things that your eyes and ears tell you are actually happening, that's not good.
'Saturday Night Live' has always been, you know, non-partisan - whoever's in power should probably be challenged.
I think Samantha Bee is doing a really good show.
Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of the evening.
I grew up in a time where on things like 'The Red Skeleton Show' or even to a certain extent on 'The Carol Burnett Show,' people wrote in the breakouts or ad-libs. They were scripted to look spontaneous. So I always had a dislike of that kind of thing.
Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here?
There are things in low comedy that make people uncomfortable, and there are things in high comedy that make people bored.
You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.
I'm incredibly proud of the show 'Portlandia' that I do, but it's designed for an audience that just wants that and loves that.
It's better when they laugh, isn't it?
All babies are ugly unless they're your baby.
There's nothing that sells stuff like television. Nothing.
I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.
Yeah, I love Los Angeles.
All saints are selfish.
I was in Los Angeles in 1968, and I was fortunate enough to be a writer on 'Laugh-In' and a couple of other television shows.
