Spike Feresten

Spike Feresten: (about the rumor that he threw a huge party to find a girlfriend) That is true! It was at the beginning of the last season of Seinfeld, and I had just broken up with someone maybe three or four months earlier. And I thought, "why don't I round up a new crop"? So me and my writer friends threw a gigantic party at the rotating restaurant atop a Holiday Inn, invited "Buckwheat Zydeco" to come play and it was an open door policy. We tacked pieces of paper to telephone poles and said, "Come on in." And I just happened to meet not only my girlfriend -- but my wife. I married the girl I met that night.

Spike Feresten: (about writing on the "Letterman" show) It's a lot of fun. You come in and read a couple newspapers and start your day with a nice appetizer of opening remarks. And during the day, you get these different writing assignments. We would write four to eight pages of jokes a day.

Spike: (Speaking about his show in its first season) FOX is really just letting us experiment, and they're being really good about it, and they're saying, "Go ahead and get out there and learn how to do the show, and figure out what the job is and what the show is."