When I was growing up, there was a character on TV; there was a character stereotype: it was personified by Mel on 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television.

I came to New York late; I was already past 30.

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.

Our new programmes have always just been different vehicles for the same sort of comedy.