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Matt Groening

"We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff."

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"We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff."

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Asa Don Brown

"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."

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Asa Don Brown

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

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Asa Don Brown

"I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny."

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Asa Don Brown

"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."

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Asa Don Brown

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

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Asa Don Brown

"We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life."

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Asa Don Brown

"The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining."

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Asa Don Brown

"When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot."

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Asa Don Brown

"As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life."

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Asa Don Brown

"I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things."

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Matt Groening
"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."

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Matt Groening
"I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult."

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Matt Groening
"The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television."

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Matt Groening
"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun."

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Matt Groening
"Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people."

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Matt Groening
"Don't have a cow, man."

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Matt Groening
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."

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Matt Groening
"Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to."

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Matt Groening
"Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing."

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Matt Groening
"I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult."

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