My goal was to see if I could get them to laugh a little bit.

Somebody got asked if Montana was part of Canada.

They were just clamoring for attention. At one time, I had six kids hanging on me. I was trying to walk with all these kids on me. I enjoyed that. Those kids needed attention.

9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through that lens.

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

Maybe it is the war or the movies or because this generation was bred on radio comedy, but I found out that they want bombastic stuff with a lot of drive. They have little time for whimsy. It varies, of course, from town to town. The Hartford audience was sharper on some things than the Buffalo audience. Political jokes go, depending upon how the community votes. A Negro audience will pick up subtle comedy quicker than anyone else.