I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that you can say no. People have base instincts, but the transcendent also appeal to them.

I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.

My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.