Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better.

I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.

Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft.

And that's the way I have always lived, for the laughs – today. N-O-W. No Other Way.

. . . children - not kids. Kids are goats. I've always spoken of my children as children.

The audience and I are friends. They allowed me to grow up with them. I've let them down several times. They've let me down several times. But we're all family.