Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them.

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

There are no cartoons about happy marriages.

I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

Groupon, as you probably are by now aware, is exactly what it sounds like: a daily-deal site offering group discounts. Maybe you've seen that done before, but certainly not like Groupon, which has executed with an energetic sales force and engaging copywriters, many culled from the Chicago comedy scene.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.