In today's world, you would call my father mostly unaccessible. I'm not sure that isn't true of most fathers at that time. He went through the Depression. I don't know what that would have done to my psyche.

I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have it!'

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

The best advice I could give someone trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.

The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.

It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.

Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is.