We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy.' If something was horribly offensive and shocking we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.

Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.

There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have.

The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera and he guest-starred as himself.

My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid.

I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.