I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before.

Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.'

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.