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Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.

Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by MGM topper Louie Mayer and his newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which was itself, back in the day, nothing but a front organization to discourage unionizing.

We let people tape our shows and share those tapes because we felt our live performances were for the people. We took a very Grateful Dead attitude toward that.

I'm interested in all sorts of things. I'll go to anything. Games. Car shows. Boat shows. Home shows. Movies. The theater. I just love to see things. There's so much I'd like to learn about.

Asians narratively in shows are insignificant. They're the cop or the waitress or whatever it is. You see them in the background.

For a few years, there were three shows running on Broadway that I had all opened: 'Chicago,' 'Wicked' and 'Anything Goes.'

In the Led Zeppelin shows of the Sixties and Seventies, it was the same numbers every night, but they were constantly in a state of flux. If I played something good, really substantial, I'd stick it in again.

I like to write my shows coming up with the stupidest things I can think of then finding a way I can incorporate a running theme or an underlying message that takes a stupid idea and gives it something worth watching.

What we need to focus on is not that we're not nominated, but that we have many more Latinos that are in prominent positions on shows all across the dial than ever before.

When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're just trashed by the end.

There's a lot of successful procedural shows that are out there. A lot of them are very successful. I just know there's an audience out there that wants character also.

I tend not to look at my work after I've done it. In fact, the only time I typically get to review it is when the fans bring up comics at shows, and I kind of flip through it and be like, 'Oh, I remember doing this!'

The network shows have this very commercial voice that you have to adhere to, and the cable shows, it's kind of like winning the lottery. The independent film world is a world you can actually get to. You can get the under-a-million-dollar film by finding a good cast and financing.

I like to watch all those shows that shouldn't be on the air - reality shows.

I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don't really think most people really understand what they've seen.

It's sad ending 'Peep Show,' but it'll be fun starting some new shows.

With my writing partner, Sam Bain, I have gone on to write for lots of shows, including our co-creation 'Peep Show,' two series of which have been shown on Channel 4. But politics has always attracted me.

The best shows I play, I almost don't even remember off the stage.

I think South Korea was one of the best shows I've ever done in my whole life. The people there were crazy. It was literally Beatlemania.

I feel am a blessed girl, as every time one of my shows ends, there's another one waiting to start. I am God's favourite child.