The theater business is very much about "Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April.".

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….

A movie script more than anything else is a plan of action for the crew. Everybody in the crew looks at the script to see what they're going to do. I….

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….

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….

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….

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th cent….

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 first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it..

I always used to sit next to Mel Blanc when we'd do the shows. When you have Jack Benny on one side and Mel Blanc on the other, you're not going to g….

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

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….

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….

As a kid, I really did want to hang out with the grownups, so it was hanging out with the hippest grownups in the world. This was the nicest bunch of….

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice..