In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.

If you're working with a band and you really want to work them into the episode, you've got to say to them, "Look, we need you around every day and on Tuesday night all night because we need you to do voices as we're changing stuff." We do the show so quickly, and you just can't get bands to do that. It's not really fair.

So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'

In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.

When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.