Running My Show Is Really Like An

I Like When The Ice Gets Thin, The Going Gets Rough, The Guests Get Edgy.

It Takes A Certain Amount Of Guts To Go To Your Class Reunions.

I Had To Fight The Intellectual Label When I Started In Television, Because, First Of All, It's Not Going To Help You Commercially, And Also, It Wasn't Particularly True Of Me. I Mean, If Anybody Thought I Was An Intellectual, They Probably Had Never Really Seen One.

I Guess The Best Advice I Ever Got Or Anyone Could Get For Doing A Talk Show, Though It Has Not Been Easy Very Often, Was From Jack Paar, Who Said, 'kid, Don't Make It An Interview. Interviews Have Clipboards, And You're Like David Frost. Make It A Conversation.'

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.