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It's always difficult when you're on a show that goes for more than a year or a couple of years.

A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.

Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.

Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.

My feeling is talk shows have not kept pace with the breakthroughs and changes in format in television generally.

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.

American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.

We still have a very good core following, and the shows have been almost one hundred percent sold out.

Our shows today are better and funnier than they've ever been.