Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'
It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.'
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds.
