The First Thing You've Got To Do

You Know, Radio Was A Really Easy Way To Do The Shows. You'd Come In, Do A Read-through, There'd Be A Few Rehearsals, Then You'd Come The Night Of The Show And Do It In Front Of The Audience And Then Go Home.

You Can Get An Awful Lot Of Effects Into The Customer's Mind For A Great Deal Less Time And Money In Radio Than You Can In Television.

Nixon's Genius Was That He Was Able To Portray Himself As The Toughest Of The Anti-communists, And Yet Run On A Platform That He Had A Plan To End The Vietnam War. And, Of Course, His Plan Was To Prolong It Until His Second Election - But He Didn't Tell Us That Then.

Sometimes, Songs Spill Out Of You Very Fast, And Sometimes You Have To Wrangle Them To The Floor. But The Same Thing Is True Of Comedy, Where Sometimes It Really Flows.

I've Been Doing Nixon Pretty Much My Whole Professional Life. I Was In This Comedy Group Called The Credibility Gap In Los Angeles When He Was President. I Was Doing Nixon On The Radio, And When We Did Live Shows I Physicalized Him - If That's A Word - For The First Time. And Then I Did A Nixon Sketch On A Very Short-lived Nbc Show Called Sunday Best.