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People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.

I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.

It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.

I actually gravitate toward comedy a lot when it comes to what I'm watching, but maybe that's because I've been on such dark work the last four or five years.

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.

There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.

That, to me, is what comedy is all about: keeping fresh and keeping current and changing with the times.

With comedy, the jokes will come out, and people will see them coming. Changes in daily life or current events can change the consciousness of audiences and can make the show less funny or feel more stale.