I'd Always Loved Radio. I

The Act Of Getting Married, Stripped Of The Necessity To Have A Secure Setting To Raise Children, Seems To Me No Less Grim Than Registering Your Emotions With The Government.

If You're Going To Do Something That Lasts 90 Minutes, You Can't Really Do It With Stick Figures.

There Were Really Funny Characteristics About This Guy [richard Nixon], Chief Of Which Would Be That He Seemed To Devote About 85 Percent Of His Waking Energy To Suppressing Any Sign Of His Emotional Response To Anything That Was Going On Around Him, And The Other 15 Percent Blurting Out Those Authentic Responses In The Silliest And Most Inopportune Ways. And He Had These Smiles That Would Come At The Most Inappropriate Times - Just Flashes That There Was An Inner Life Screaming To Get Out.

I Was Never Into Candy And Games And Clowns.

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.