We Want Playmates We Can Own.

I Think We Overrate Experience And What We've Been Through In Terms Of Our Success At Doing The Work We Do. There Are Many People Who Get Beat Up, Who Suffer, Who Are Victimized, And Then They Sit Down To Write And They Write Crap.

There's No Rap Against Comics That Isn't True. They Were Sexist, They Were Racist, You Name It - And They Kind Of Gloried In That.

My Success Was The Shock Of Recognition, Probably, Rather Than The Quality Of The Work. I Mean, The Quality May Have Been Fine, But There's A Lot Of Fine Work Out There. It Was The Fact That I Was Doing Something That At That Time, Nobody Else Was Doing, Except For Say, Mort Saul Out In San Francisco On The Hungry Eye, And "second City" Was Emerging Out In Chicago. Nothing In Print. It Was Basically Happening In Cabaret And Nothing In Fiction. And Certainly Nothing In New York In Cartoons.

I'm Not Sure About That Role Any Longer. The Role Used To Be To Mix Things Up And I Think To A Great Extent It Still Is, But The Quality Of The Work Of The Political Cartoon Has Been Succeeded By The Wisecrack, The Gag Cartoon, So That The Cartoonist Becomes More Of The Equivalent Of The Jay Leno Monologues, Or David Letterman Monologues.

Remember When You Were A Kid And The Boys Didn't Like The Girls? Only Sissies Liked Girls? What I'm Trying To Tell You Is That Nothing's Changed. You Think Boys Grow Out Of Not Liking Girls, But We Don't Grow Out Of It. We Just Grow Horny. That's The Problem. We Mix Up Liking Pussy For Liking Girls. Believe Me, One Couldn't Have Less To Do With The Other.