If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

You get interviewed when you're out promoting something.

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.

Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.