Great humorists are great insulters.

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.'

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.

Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn't possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!

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

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!