I'm Normally Not A Praying Man, But

I Think In Daily Newspapers, The Way Comic Strips Are Treated, It's As If Newspaper Publishers Are Going Out Of Their Way To Kill The Medium. They're Printing The Comics So Small That Most Strips Are Just Talking Heads, And If You Look Back At The Glory Days Of Comic Strips, You Can See That They Were Showcases For Some Of The Best Pop Art Ever To Come Out.

On 'the Simpsons,' I Will Say That We Definitely Like To Comment On What's Going On In The World, And We Try To Be Funny. If We Can Figure Out A Way Of Being Funny About It, Then We've Gone Part Of The Way Of Accomplishing Our Task.

I Always Say That 'futurama' Is Real, And 'the Simpsons' Is Fiction.

'the Simpsons' From The Very Beginning Was Based On Our Memories Of Brash '60s Sitcoms - You Had A Main Title Theme That Was Bombastic And Grabbed Your Attention - And When You Look At Tv Shows Of The 1970s And '80s, Things Got Very Mild And Toned Down And... Obsequious.

Humor Does Depend On Surprise, And The Things That People Remember As The Funniest Things In The World, You Look At Later And You Go, "what? What Was That All About?"