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

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

I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles.

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.

Ed Simmons and I became stars in the emerging medium of television. We were new and fresh, just like TV at the time, so we automatically became 'THE' comedy writers for television.

I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.