I do situations and make fun of authority and life.

Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my performance. I never had writers.

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.

I've never had a writer, and I'm proud of that. Everything I've per­formed has been from my own head.

I don't do impressions.

If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.

Regis Philbin is very successful in his own right. We have a new thing where he have chairs and we sit and talk to each other about my career and his career. It works pretty well if I do say so.