I met someone who said they'd figured out my genre: "madcap redemption comedy." I'll buy that.

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

When you grow up in Chicago, your whole family is counting on you to go to college and do something distinguished. The last thing you're thinking is that you're going to make a career in show business.

Parents tell us things to protect us, or they educate us from their own misinformation or misconceptions.

I think satire is a luxury of literate middle-class people. People who are well fed and relatively secure in their beds can laugh at their troubles. They can enjoy sitcoms. For those who aren't quite so lucky, well, the irony might be lost on them.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.