Music Often Happens Even Faster Than Comedy

As A Kid, I Really Did Want To Hang Out With The Grownups, So It Was Hanging Out With The Hippest Grownups In The World. This Was The Nicest Bunch Of People I've Worked With In Show Business, With The Exception Of The People Around 'a Mighty Wind.' It Really Was A Wonderful Eight Years.

The Last President We Had Was The Smartest Guy Anyone Could Remember And He Did The Dumbest Thing Anyone Has Ever Seen In The White House So Go Figure.

I Always Used To Sit Next To Mel Blanc When We'd Do The Shows. When You Have Jack Benny On One Side And Mel Blanc On The Other, You're Not Going To Go Far Wrong.

Satire Is An Art Best Practiced Behind The Back Of The Intended Target. I Think Inviting Politicians On A Satirical Show Becomes A Very Big Trap. Because One Of Two Things Happen: Either You Have To Kind Of Unsharpen Your Fangs Because You Can't Be Quite As Cruel To People To Their Face As You Are Behind Their Backs... Or You Don't Defang, And Those Guests Get The Word And They Stop Coming.

I Would Come Back To Public School For Usually About Half The Year. It Was Actually Better For Me To Be Out Of School A Lot, Because I Was Two Years Younger Than Everybody, Which Is A Bad Situation, Socially.