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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

I don't have much time for TV shows, but if I did, I'd watch 'Seinfeld' reruns.

I did an episode of a show called 'Mind Games,' which is no longer on the air, and it was an intellectual comedy-drama. It was just really smart TV.

One thing I won't do in television is a sitcom. I find that world to be so neurotic and bizarre.

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

I never try and do the same show, ever. The audience controls the dynamic of the shows. Sometimes they listen, and sometimes they ask a million questions.

I never really thought I had much to add to the conversation that was occurring at 'MADtv.' I didn't know what I would do on the show. But I showed up, and I was surprised - it was fun to work on. Everybody there was really nice, and they seemed to be interested in my contributions.

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.

One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.