The Essential 'Murphy Brown' Interview

EW: Who's the funniest cast member when the cameras aren't rolling?
All: Bobby! Bobby! Bob!
Regalbuto: Bobby is very, very funny.
Pastorelli: I'm really very quiet.
Ford: Please! You? Quiet?
Bergen: That's because nothing he would say could be printed in a family publications! He's just playing shy.
Pastorelli: I save it all up for talk shows, you see.
Bergen: You know what he calls me? (cooing) ''My little Pap smear.'' (Room breaks into laughter)
Pastorelli: Yeah, and you know what she calls me? (coos, and pauses for effect) ''My little scrotum!'' (shrieks of horror all around)
Regalbuto: Oh, it's deteriorating quickly.

EW: With Diane English and Joel Shukovsky leaving the show after this season to produce a new comedy for CBS, Love is Hell, some people are now wondering whether Murphy Brown will continue to thrive.
Peterman: Next question! (lots of laughs, followed by a long pause)
EW: Seriously
Peterman: We only think about it 20, 24 hours a day. It's a real nerve-inducing experience. They had such a clear image of what this show should be from the beginning. We know we won't be exactly the same.
Shaud: But you can't go up to the bat thinking, ''I'm going to strike out.'' That won't be a quality at bat. You wouldn't be in the majors very long.
Shukovsky: Diane and I want to see Murphy Brown continue and have a life of its own. We would like nothing more than to see it go on indefinitely.
English: If it can't, then we really failed as execs. Look, I think it belongs to a lot of other people now. For a while it just did belong to me and to Candice, but these guys [the writers] are so much better in so many ways at this than I am. I said the other day I forgot how to write jokes.
Dontzig: Don't listen to her. She's having a nervous breakdown!

EW: Where do you see the characters is 10 year?
Bergen: I'd like to see them like they were in the M*A*S*H reunion. They were all in these boats, houses on lakes, the lakes were named after them, these big leisure boats. Like Gary Burghoff — Lake Burghoff. I like that idea.