When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.

I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes.

It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong!

Instead of three networks you have three hundred or three thousand. Audiences are inundated with programming, and that sometimes gives them a sense of petulant entitlement.

I don't like that The Simpsons are spokespeople for Burger King and MasterCard and Butterfinger. In the first Gulf War, I was really upset that the Simpsons characters were being drawn on tanks and bombs. But those are things that I don't control.

You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.