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I've always done guest-starring stuff.

I've been watching 'Californication' since the pilot aired and had always thought that it would be so much fun to guest star on.

It's a fascinating job, to come in and be the most interesting person in an episode. Whoever the guest star is, that's the job - to maintain the interest and the focus for that 42 minutes or whatever, and it should be a huge relief to those people that are the leads in the shows.

When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.

One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

I really think a good host is just a connector. I'm more traffic cop than star. My job is to get people on and off the program, and hopefully keep the audience entertained.

That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.

It's fun for me to go on other folks' talk shows. When you've endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.