All sex was in dreams and then the sixties hit, sexual revolution. So much more fun than the French or Bolshevik Revolution.
And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.
But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.
But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.
I played the Concorde and the Grossingers but the part at the bottom as the busboy and as the lifeguard was the part I wrote about.
I was a class clown.
In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.
It starts at the age of eight and there is some serious stuff and some comic, tragic-comic stuff like when I brought a German girl home to my Jewish parents in the Bronx.
My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.
Nor did anyone censor any of my book. It is the most creative freedom you can have, in this, the 21st century, I can assure you.
Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame.
So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while.
The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.
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