I couldn't help but be struck that this guy I had thought was the embodiment of everything wrong with American politics, a lot of his domestic policy….

In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if y….

I think Nixon says a lot about those times. It was possibly hard, in the '90s and early 2000s to understand the grip of fear that communism had on th….

When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh, Jefferson had slaves?" It always comes as a….

I'm not sure that there's anybody else that's as psychologically complex and who's given us this window into his soul that Nixon gave us. That's what….

Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week ….

Satire is an art best practiced behind the back of the intended target. I think inviting politicians on a satirical show becomes a very big trap. Bec….

Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in..

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it m….

You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of th….

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The….

Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he had a plan to end th….

[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of….

I'd always loved radio. I loved Bob And Ray. I loved Stan Freberg..

If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures..

I was never into candy and games and clowns..

Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later..

I just think everyone knows you go on those [political satire] shows if you're a politician to, "humanize yourself" - to show, "Hey, I can take a jok….

I was a Political Science major..

Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me..

Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometim….