Membership First's record is one of conflict, division and, ultimately, failure.

I'm really happy to have been part of spreading the game of basketball and growing the game in a place like Turkey.

When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word.

I grew up playing for Manhasset High on Long Island on a team with six black guys.

I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.

We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

You can take my dirtiest, craziest joke, and I can break down in my head why there's a good, honest, honorable reason for telling it.