Bryant Gumbel’s ego has applied for statehood. And if it’s accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.
Never slap a man who chews tobacco.
I get all fired up about aging in America.
Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They’ll be working until they’re 100. It’s incredible.
I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.
I want to get my own show because ‘Today’ will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.
Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.
In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.
Will Rogers was an American hero – someone you could get your teeth into and love.
If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.
I’d like to do ‘Saturday Night Live.’
I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.
There is something endearing about the weatherman.
I talk too much. I eat too much.
The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!
I’ve always had a reputation as a buffoon.
I’m not the dumbest guy that ever lived.
I run me like a conglomerate, because that’s what I am.
My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the ’50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like – you had – 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.
August depresses me a little. I don’t even feel like eating. And when I don’t eat, that’s a sure sign of stagnation.