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

We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one customer to come in...and that customer was Jerry Lewis. It generated so much controversy that Dean [Martin] and Jerry [Lewis] had to apologize in a full page ad in Variety.

We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

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.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.