I Think The British Learn

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.

My Parents Didn't Want Me To Be A Regular In A Series. I Was A Working Actor From Time To Time But They Thought Was A Little Too Much Being A Star Of A Series. They Wanted Me To Have A Slightly More Normal Childhood.

[the Word Class Has] Been Excised From The Acceptable Political Vocabulary, Except In The Limited Usage Of Right-wingers When They Accuse Liberals Of Inciting 'class Warfare' - A Charge That Means It's Okay For Rich People To Vote Their Economic Interests But It's Not All Right To Encourage Poor People To Do So.

I Happened Upon A Memoir By A Midlevel White House Staffer, And He Had Been In The Room That [nixon's Last] Night [in Office]. This Guy's Memoir Told Me What Nixon's Last Words Were. And They Were, On August 8, 1974, To The Crew: "have A Merry Christmas, Fellas!" That Was Just So Bizarre.

I'd Always Loved Radio. I Loved Bob And Ray. I Loved Stan Freberg.