When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.

I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.

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

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

I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.

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.

Next up [new TV stars] was [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis on 'The Colgate Comedy Hour.'