Most Comedy Is Not Very

I Met Someone Who Said They'd Figured Out My Genre: "madcap Redemption Comedy." I'll Buy That.

Chicago Still Remains A Mecca Of The Midwest - People From Both Coasts Are Kind Of Amazed How Good Life Is In Chicago, And What A Good Culture We've Got. You Can Have A Pretty Wonderful Artistic Life And Never Leave Chicago.

Most Comedies Are Calculated. They Tend To Pander. They're Not About Anything Important.

Whatever Bliss We Think We're Going To Find, We May Find It In Brief Flashes, Fleeting Moments That Come And Go. There's An Impossibility To Nailing Down Any Good Feeling.

I Did A Comedy With Al Franken About His Character Stuart Smalley, Which Was Really About Alcoholism And Addiction And Codependency. It Had Some Painful Stuff In It. When We Showed It To Focus Groups, Some Of Them Actually Said, "if I Want To See A Dysfunctional Family, I'll Stay Home."