To this day, to this very day, except for television, I've never had a writer. Anything I've ever done on the stage, happened on the stage and I developed it from there. It started doing impressions and jokes - which I did very poorly. To this day I can't tell a joke. That sounds nuts, but it's true. I exaggerate it and it becomes a joke. Everything I've ever done I've done out on the stage and it became a performance over many many years.

When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.

I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.

It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing.

When someone says to me, do you do stand-up I say absolutely not. I like to think of it as a theatrical performance. With me the show changes maybe five to ten percent every night. Of course, whatever I see in front of me and sometimes I get on a little run about it and it changes the show. And my delivery is such that people who have seen me many times say Gee, I never heard that before. Actually, they have, but I might have changed it around.

I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.

Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.