I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.