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As a professional comedy writer myself, I'd like to point out that this shows the dangers of actors believing that just because they can read intelligent or witty lines written by other people, they can think them up themselves. In this case, Robbins' delusions were exacerbated by the fact that, as a liberal, he naturally believes he is far more intelligent than people who disagree with him, and he couldn't possibly be the one who is misinformed. Also, living among wealty Hollywood liberals, he never actually meets anyone who disagrees with him, so he assumes that all civilized people must share his viewpoint, no matter how inane. This cocoon effect prevents him from realizing that it's actually all inane people who share his viewpoint.