I get a kick out of the fact that people will pick on the writers in California for being responsible for the content. The people seriously responsible for the content are the people who buy it.

I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.

In my 90-plus years, I have lived a multitude of lives.

We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television.

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.