Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.

I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.

In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.

I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.

I'm really not that funny in real life. But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way I would talk to you.