Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

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.

Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?