Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.
'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.
Instead of making Friday The 13th, Part VIII or whatever, I was making the girl-meets-boy, girl-meets-girl-dressed-as-boy movie. It was fun. I liked it. It's goofy. I look back at myself and think, "What the hell was I doing?"
When I was 15, if anything, I thought I was going to be a Delta bluesman, which is so ridiculous.
My dad is and was very funny and had a really dry sense of humor, which, as a kid, seemed un-fun. But in retrospect, it's kind of hilarious.
I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.
In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.
It's a different world: when I'm writing 'Toast,' I've got one foot in 1974 and one foot in the modern day, because the modern day is nowhere near as funny or interesting.
I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: 'My God. Did I really have that hairstyle? And that Tory blue suit?'
