Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.

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

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.

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

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.