Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.

A lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself...

When you look back at the older cartoons, they're very much more observational cartoons. And the cartoon, the people in the cartoons are not making the joke.

Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn't appear until 2000.

The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that you have much more observational humor.

You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's true of art and everything else.

I'm making fun of myself and I think I'm making fun of all men in our desperate, desperate attempt to understand the people we're with and hopefully through humor have them understand us.