The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there.
I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.
‘The Brady Bunch’ asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.
Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he’s funny.
Science has become politicized, and that’s an embarrassment.
Every year, the Friday before the new Saturday-morning shows would premiere, the networks would do this big preview special, and I was always glued to the TV. As horrible as they were, they were entertaining at the time. There was a lot of showmanship from the networks based around the new lineup.
I can’t believe I am hosting the Oscars. It’s an honor everyone else said no.
There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes ‘American Dad’ work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have.
The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It’s too bad because it’s so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.
We never really tried to shock for shock’s sake on ‘Family Guy’. If something was horribly offensive and shocking, we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.
Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he’s funny.
The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That’s what works. That’s one of the things that’s funny.
I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that’s surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens.
The only problem is time.
There are times when I’m under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It’s always up to me to say, ‘Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I’m not myself.’
There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.
Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.
Evolution doesn’t care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we’ve achieved as a species with the space program. We can’t afford to regress back to the days of superstition.
I had – I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.
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