I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.

What happens at the average church or synagogue or mosque is that I don't know many priests or ministers or rabbis who say to their congregation, 'go home and talk about the religion at the kitchen table with your kids...talk about God, talk about what this is all about.' They say in general, come back on the weekend, we'll talk to you about it.

Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.

I looked at enough of American Idol in the first weeks, and they're all about humiliation. I listen to Rush Limbaugh because I find it so repulsive. There are people with a little less sophistication who watch a lot of it, because we allow things to appeal to our baser instincts. But at the same moment, give me a little choice, and I'll make a better decision, because I have that ability too. And so does everybody else.

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

Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.

Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'