Ellen DeGeneres is brilliant. She's funny, she's warm and she doesn't hurt anybody on her show.
I'm aiming to become the white Oprah.
I am a big 'Ellen' fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.
Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing, and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own show.
Years ago, NPR tried to stop me from going on "The Factor." When I refused, they insisted that I not identify myself as an NPR journalist. I asked them if they thought people did not know where I appeared on the air as a daily talk show host, national correspondent and news analyst. They refused to budge.
When I did 'The Tonight Show' and Jay Leno was still there, he was very nice but it was surreal. It's like you can't believe you're standing there talking to that person. If you've seen them in a lot of movies or on TV you feel like you know them, just like my fans feel like they know me.
For Joey Bishop, always was kind of the lost soul, so I did a traffic joke.
People are saying that Anderson Cooper could be the new Oprah. And then these people are struck by lightning.
Someone wrote in the New York Times recently that if Donald Trump was allowed to go through with his plans, he'd become one of history's major human rights violators and ethnic cleansers, just below the Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin league. But people don't care. Trump goes on Jimmy Fallon's show and that spineless puff of a talk show host praises Trump for being such an "off the cuff" talker and providing "fresh air." Fresh air! What's fresh about racism? it comes out of the darkest dankest rottenest human cellar!
My first job ever was, I got hired by Oprah Winfrey.
I'm good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O'Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
In the long period of time when I did talk shows and game shows, a whole new generation of people came along who thought of me as that, and not as a theater person.
I love talk shows and hosting. I would want to do something like that. I'm not sure I would want to be a reality star continuously.
Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.
David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times.
If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to most people, given how comfortable and how out I am being the only late-night gay talk-show host.
There are consequences if you stand up for what you believe. Heck, you might - you might lose your sponsors if you're a talk show host; or if you're running for office, you know, people not give to you or people might not vote for you.
As far as in my career, I don't know what other form there is. I would love to do a talk show.
I haven't spoken to Oprah herself. She had so much going on, since her network show was wrapping up at the time we were shooting. I can't fault her for that.
I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I could do that all the time.
I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.
I'm looking to do an honest job, and I don't have any Indian talk show as a reference point. I'm not looking down on them, but I want to do what Oprah did.
I'd actually rather have a talk show in Australia than even America; I hope I do end up with a talk show.
I'm going to leave The Wanda Sykes Show and try to get her job because $5 million ain't too bad!
I've called all sports. I was a radio DJ, club DJ, talk show host, hockey, basketball, football; you name it, I've done it.
