We used to get 27, 28 minutes to do a story in, and now they're lucky if they get 18 or 20 minutes. So I don't think they can really do a beginning, a middle, and an end anymore. There's an awful lot of one-line jokes; almost every line is a punchline. It's not the same, but there's still good comedy around.

I have four children and I have seven grandkids.

Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.

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

I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this, it's this, it's that. But I - it's - I think - I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don't.

We spent a lot of time together and had a great time with Mary Tyler Moore. And just working with her was like improv.

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.