Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.

Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

Satire is an art best practiced behind the back of the intended target. I think inviting politicians on a satirical show becomes a very big trap. Because one of two things happen: Either you have to kind of unsharpen your fangs because you can't be quite as cruel to people to their face as you are behind their backs... Or you don't defang, and those guests get the word and they stop coming.