I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their half of the work.

I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.

I can't work with my brother without laughing.

There aren't many pratfalls in comedy anymore.

I'm not quite as much of a curmudgeon being old. I'm not cantankerous. But otherwise, I'm about the same.

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records.