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.'

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.

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.

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

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