When Sinead O'Connor tore up the picture of the Pope, you could hear a pin drop. I didn't know it was coming, obviously, because at dress, she had held up a picture of Balkan orphans, which I thought was really meaningful and what she wanted to do.

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Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

You can't be perfect for 90 minutes.

There are things in low comedy that make people uncomfortable, and there are things in high comedy that make people bored.

There's nothing that sells stuff like television. Nothing.

I was in Los Angeles in 1968, and I was fortunate enough to be a writer on 'Laugh-In' and a couple of other television shows.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.