If You're Going To Do

Well Washington Dc What Are You Going To Do. They Think The Capitol Steps Are The State Of The Art In Comedy. You Try To Drag Them Into The 20th Century Let Alone The 21st And They Refuse To Come With You.

When It Moved To Friday Night It Disappeared, When They Find Another Show That Can Do What The Simpsons Does, They Will Be Delighted To Do Cancel The Simpsons.

I Just Think Everyone Knows You Go On Those [political Satire] Shows If You're A Politician To, "humanize Yourself" - To Show, "hey, I Can Take A Joke." Well, Why Should Satire Be In The Service Of Humanizing These People Who Are Supposed To Be The Target Of Our Venom And Vitriol? I Think That's Unseemly.

[c. Montgomery] Burns Is Much Purer Evil Than Nixon Was. I Think It's The Purity Of His Evil That Attracts Me As A Comic Character.

I Think Nixon Says A Lot About Those Times. It Was Possibly Hard, In The '90s And Early 2000s To Understand The Grip Of Fear That Communism Had On The Country In The 1950s And 1960s - A Fear Nixon Rode Like A Endless Great Wave On The Pacific To High Office. I'm Sure, Though There's No Evidence Of It, One Of The Things That Rankled Him Down Deep Was That It Was Called Mccarthyism And Not Nixonism.