The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.

I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.

Society is completely unreasonable. People want everything and want to pay for nothing. They panic if they think about their taxes being raised, but if their garbage collection is a day late they scream and yell.

Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.

As a viewer of TV shows, I always like shows more when I just feel like the people in charge have a plan. You can just tell sometimes, 'Oh, there's a plan there. They have an idea for how this is going to unfold.'

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

My favorite sitcom of all time is 'Cheers.' That's a perfect example of how, like, people made fun of Cliff, but you never got the sense that they didn't like Cliff.

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.