"No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'"
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"All the religions are super funny to me."
"I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football."
"I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn."
"When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh."
"Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper."
"So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it."
"A scotch buzz is the best buzz in the world."
"There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists."
"I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force."
"My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut."
"I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff."
"I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them."
"I like to fancy myself more of a musician than anything else."
"Before the church responded, a lot of people would ask us, 'Are you afraid of what the church would say?' And Trey and I were like, 'They're going to be cool.' And they were like, 'No, they're not. There are going to be protests.' And we were like, 'Nope, they're going to be cool.' We weren't that surprised by the church's response. We had faith in them."
"Any job is a job. If you have to be doing something, then you're probably not enjoying it."