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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.

Comedy is important! When you're having a stressful day, and you come home, you want to watch something that makes you laugh.

When you're not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it's important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're through. With a 90-minute feature, you've got to stop the laughter and then pick it up again, which is tough.

We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.

But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.

For comedy, timing is key.

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.