I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
“Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.”
“All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.”