There aren't many pratfalls in comedy anymore.

It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.

I sing all day. And it's good for you. Good for your vocal cords.

I wasn't a falling-in-the-gutter type. I drank at home because it relaxed me. I was shy around new people, but after a drink or two, I became more sociable.

I've never been what you'd call a great singer, but I loved to sing.

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business so that's literally 70 years.

A producer came to me about doing a memoir, and at first I thought, "Well, it's a little bland." But then I realized that almost everything that's happened to me was the result of being in the right place at the right time. And I thought "Well, luck has a lot to do with it," so I wrote it from that perspective.