Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?

I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

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

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

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.

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.