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.

I will smoke crack before I die. I want to see what all the hubbub is about.

I'm a lurker and a creep. Women don't like me because I sleep standing up, like a horse.

I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.

Do you think we're going to hit a tipping point and the world's going to end?

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.

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.