The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'
Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.
The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.
'True Blood' is one of those shows that is so deep and good that you can't have it on in the background. It's one of those shows that you have to dedicate time to.
I've often talked about that, and I've been asked that a couple of times and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show.
Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.
'I, Malvolio' is a very, very funny show, a clown show, but there is Beckettian darkness in the character. Some real darkness, some right close to the edge of despair moments.
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.
The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.
When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.
The reality show 'America's Next Top Model' is my girlie pleasure.
Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.
I did a couple of sketch shows with Mike Palin and Terry Jones... and then I got hired by Granada to do a weekly topical show.
I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.
I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.
I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.
I don't have some sort of moral dilemma with coming as a guest to an event or a fashion show.
I think it's a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.
When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show.
My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.
