Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.

The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.

Don't ever have two dogs. That way you won't know which one to blame.

The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to what other people are saying. A psychologist is a man who listens, who is sympathetic.