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I like comedy that's not political but social, dealing with issues of people talking to each other. No matter what your politics, we still have to live with each other. Politics is taking a side. I'm not running for office, you know?

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.