If the crowd is full of assholes, it's no fun. If the crowd is cool, it's great.

A hole is a hole has always been my motto.

Let's hit the joke once and move on to the next joke and just keep it where we have as many jokes per square inch as possible.

You see a lot of sketch variety shows where each segment is one joke that they repeat over and over and over again, and the sketches are always three or four minutes too long.

I just grew up with it [The Simpsons]. The first season came on when I was 5, 6 years old, and the show evolved as I was growing up and got funnier and funnier and, by the time I was in 12th grade, they were at their funniest.

They [ The Simpsons] are just like the Bible to me as far as what the high-water mark of comedy.

Before The Simpsons, I was 4 years old, so I don't know exactly what I was thinking before that.