just you and don rickles. that was incredible.have any idea who you are. [ laughter ] todd, why did you call the book "the todd glass situation"? >> well, honestly? >> jimmy: yeah. >> because the first title they wouldn't let me call it. >> jimmy: what did you want to call it? >> genuinely the title was if i could ever meet a girl. all i wanted to do was meet a girl with a terminal disease. that would confuse people. but then the subtitle was "and other stupid things i said to keep the closet door shut," which would sort of explain it. because my theory was when i was 21 -- it had nothing to do with making fun of anybody with a terminal disease. you know i would never do that. >> jimmy: you'd be the last person in the whole world to ever do something like that, yes. >> is that i had a pathetic plight of trying to stay hidden, that if i could meet a girl who had a terminal disease, i would fall in love with her, then she'd die and when i was 90 i'd be like i never could meet another girl like karen. >> jimmy: yeah. >> so that would

look at don rickles, he's saying the same joke every night for 20 years. making it look like he just thought of. hey, that's acting. so kathy griffin wants to be an actre actress, sarah silverman. i'm going back in november to the national theater in washington and i'm doing a play reading. i want to go back. i've been on broadway three times, i want to go back. my bucket lisp three things on my bucket list, go back to the stage, mare are you a wealthy jewish man who is about to die, and his last thing is, give joan everything. and my third is go on a boat somewhere, have a boat. fabulous. >> why go back to the stage when by your own admission, acting is your first love, but there have been moments where you've had issues with the way that you were reviewed or treated. >> yes. >> on stage. why go back again? >> because there's nothing like live performing. and i'm a new york girl. i come out of new york theater. to me, coming out of the subway with my mother looking up, that was the first thing i got. okay, you know, here we go again. to be in new york to

talking about don rickles. i had dinner with don and barbara the other night.him on the show. so i am now officially mentioning him on the show, which i would have done already. >> i know, he loves to be mentioned on the show. [ laughter ] he never tires of his name. it's amazing. i have played golf with him one time, and the way he appears on the show, he's in control of everything. but actually, he's very -- he's very -- he needs a lot of support. you have to tell him how good he is. we're playing golf, and i said great shot. but i got tired of it, so i got a cassette and recorded compliments on the cassette. [ laughter ] so he hit his shot and i would play it, wow, you're really playing great. [ laughter ] and then i would play, oh, come on, you're taking lessons from a pro. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's not a bad idea. i would love to have something like that on my phone now. so you and don are very close friends, we know that. you travel together all the time. >> what we to is we take two weeks. we go on vacation with don for two weeks. then we come back h