America Is A Country Of Excess.

The Movies Had A Slogan At The Time, To Distinguish Themselves From Tv, That Said 'movies Are Better Than Ever.'

I Think Americans Have Become A - Much More A Nation Of Consumers Than Citizens.

That's A Very Hard Thing To Help The Establishment Know. We're Still An Establishment That Thinks The Average Mentality Is Something Like 13 Years Of Age, That Never Forgot H.l. Mencken's Notion That Nobody Lost Money Underestimating The Intelligence Of The American People. That's The Horseshit The Establishment Has Always Lived With.

Ed Simmons And I Became Stars In The Emerging Medium Of Television. We Were New And Fresh, Just Like Tv At The Time, So We Automatically Became 'the' Comedy Writers For Television.

I Wanted To Meet Bob Hope, And I Got To Know Him Pretty Well.