Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
Matt GroeningThe amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.
Matt GroeningThe French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.
Matt GroeningWe've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.
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