One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.

I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner.

I always loved to dance, but I never had a clue what I was doing.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.

I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.

Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.