I'll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.

Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.

The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.

I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.

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