Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.