If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

At some point, you realize that people might be laughing at your jokes because they're afraid not to laugh.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

My favorite day at 30 Rock is Thursday, when the show airs. At lunch we screen the episodes. For everyone to watch together, to see the stuff we all worked on, to hear the crew laugh - it’s great fun.

One of the great things about doing animated movies is that you don't have to dress up or put on make-up.

We're gonna promote freedom. Usher in democratic values and ideals. And fight terror-loving terrorists.

The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.