but i do like the one with susan lucci. >> does anyone else smell pot? >> what are you, a cop? >> no. >> then what is it to you? tavis: you are just ripping off the one-liners. and we have a good time on that show. -- >> we have a good time on that show. tavis: tell me how you develop such great comedic timing? >> i was an only child, my mother and father, and there was not a straight man in the house, and i mean that in the nicest way. they were fun and we would laugh and a lot. my dad would bring home stories and jokes. he would say, and " sweetheart, you can take that to school. i would not take that to school." tavis: this started early at the home. >> yep. tavis: we were talking before we came on the air, and i said how much i like the title of the book. it is so betty white, "if you ask me (and of course you won't)," and you started to tell me how it came about. >> the publishers wanted to call it "listened up." that is not me, and i said i was not thrilled with the title. they said, " which went to college? i did not know of the top of my head. -- what would you want to