A Conversation Does Not Have To Be

The Nixon Administration Kept A Nasty Eye On Our Show... Cops Would Come By - Often Just In Time To See The Act They Wanted To See.

Statistically, I'd Say Comedy Writers Are Perhaps The Sanest Category Of Show People. And Why Not? They Make Big Money, And Although It's Not An Easy Trade - Particularly When You're At Your Galley Oar Five Days A Week - It's Easier On The Nerves And The Psyche Than Living With The Brain-squeezing Pressure And Cares Of Being The Star.

My Iq Is Somewhere Between Spiro Agnew's And Albert Einstein's.

Coming Up Through The Ranks Of Any Calling Can Be Rough, But That Battered Soul Who Survives The Early Years Of Courting The Comic Muse Comes Close To Knowing What Only The Soldier Knows: What Combat Is Like.

I'm Not Freakishly Short. I Had, On My Show, Used Shortness As A Joke Subject; It Didn't Really Bother Me.