I don't want to go back to sitcoms - I'm a middle-aged, white guy - the high school principal who's a buffoon. It's hard enough raising kids now a days, and I don't want to be a part of a show that I'll be embarrassed watching shows like that with my kids and my mother. A lot of shows feel they need to get that for humor. You've have to have had a life experience; otherwise, it's toilet humor. If you've had a job before or experienced something, you get it. Some of these people haven't and they look for the cheap laugh.

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

I never went to drama school, so that was more like I was getting away with it.

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.

I mean, Cheers [from the Star Wars] was just a job while we were doing it. All of us were really only hustling to pay the rent, weren't we.

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.