I have such respect for people who do non-fiction casting after settling on the grandparents we got for this. It is really hard to find people who are not fame-whores. We're lucky these people actually wanted to spend their time doing this. All of them would have much rather been cooking without the cameras, being with their families. That's why they're great characters.

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.

It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.

I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.