A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials including one for MCI. You can only see half of me but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces primarily by TV commercials.

I've come up through art school through painting through graphic design through advertising through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books built billboards matchbooks corporate identities. I continuously paint I've done conceptual art pictures.

The truth is we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.

I did a lot of gasoline commercials - Hess Texaco. I was part of the family in the car the little brat in the back.

I remember when metal was something you really had to search out and now I hear it on car commercials.

I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what I just loved it.

It's been amazing the number of commercials that I've done starting back in 1968. It must be 8 000.