When I was starting out in this business, that was the norm. You did it all. You looked around, and entertainers could dance, sing, play the piano, act, make you laugh.

On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing.

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

People tend to dance much more easily than they can sing or play the piano. It's not hard to teach a person to do a good jitterbug. But it's hard to get them to sound like Sinatra.