I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as good as Dennis Day.
I'm not intentionally dirty. It just kind of happens. It's not like I'm a shock comic who's looking to walk people.
The more cerebral, slightly darker comedy stuff is where I love to live.
I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.
My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.
I'm a recovering journalist, I should say.
I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!" "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?
I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I'm quite proud of, but I still haven't seen it. I have no plans to branch out.
I'm not a comic book guy at all.
The background score plays an important role in black comedies.
The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.
'Star Trek' tends to take itself a little too seriously. They were either very dramatic shows, or if we did a humorous show, it was always a little like, 'Oh, we're doing humor on 'Star Trek,'' especially on the original series.
As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.
Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.
My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.
I don't think American family sitcoms are mean. I guess I really love 'Arrested Development.' I guess they are quite mean in that, but that is also a very silly, surreal, absurd show as well, and it has got a heart as well.
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
In my opinion, where comedy sequels tend to go bad is that they get sillier and lighter.
I like pin-up girls. I'm more of a boy than a girl. I'm not a lesbian, though - not before a sambuca anyway.
A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.
I guess that compared to other comic strips, I'm edgy. But put me along something like 'South Park,' and I'm 'Captain Kangaroo.'
Oh, my God! It's a killer Pomeranian." I glanced up at Derek. "It's a tough call, but I think you can take him.
I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.
