If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.
Death teaches us to live; it gives us a boundary to map our living within. Death's hammer breaks through the mirror separating us from light.
There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too.
I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.
If the State does not enjoy a monopoly of violence, which then gives it the power to order people's lives and to compel them to obey decisions over which they have no control, or just limited control, then I think you have a consistently libertarian society.
Ethics is the new competitive environment
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 and David - two of the most brilliant performers and writers there are. Their show was based on them. Our show is a bit more broad. We have a cast of 7, we have guests. We can be slightly more topical.