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.

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.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

You can make fun of your own a lot easier than someone else's.

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.

The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.

I think part of it is the fact that they were kind of the first of its kind - there weren't a lot of cartoons for adults. People forget at the time that The Simpsons started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said "hell" and "damn" in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.