It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.