It's a very different show because of the elements that we're putting in. There's so many different styles of comedy, but Mr. Show was unique to Bob …

- B. J. Porter

Scott and I had just worked with Jimmy Pardo doing a live show over the summer. And it was a lot of fun and we wanted to keep doing a live show. And …

- B. J. Porter

Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the te…

- B. J. Porter

It's really important to keep sponsoring young people so the audience gets used to them and starts enjoying them. They're the only way your show can …

- B. J. Porter

We're having so much writing some of the sillier stuff that never would have been on Mr. Show. And that's not a knock on Mr. Show at all, because it'…

- B. J. Porter

For a long time networks just wanted to buy imitations of other shows - i.e. Curb (the Enthusiasm or the Office). The word gets out that "Hey, we wan…

- B. J. Porter

Anyone can have bad sets. I saw one guy who I really love - I won't mention his name - gave a set that was really bad. And then one month later did t…

- B. J. Porter

I think one reason why our show is popular too is that we have relationships with all these people. They are our actual friends. We're not like show …

- B. J. Porter

And there's a period where everyone's buying those and it's really bad because no one is Larry David or Ricky Gervais. And then they don't work and n…

- B. J. Porter