Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.

The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.

I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.

I just think everyone knows you go on those [political satire] shows if you're a politician to, "humanize yourself" - to show, "Hey, I can take a joke." Well, why should satire be in the service of humanizing these people who are supposed to be the target of our venom and vitriol? I think that's unseemly.

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.

I was a Political Science major.

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