let's get marco to write a show for tvland. i said, ok, i know you can get them to write a show for you but i really want to be in it. this is where it came from. and she kind of designed this show around characters that she wanted to play. which is that broadway diva. as she always saw me as her assistant/best friend. she always saw me that way. i do not know why. i am not the diva. she is. i am the lackey, which i love being. tavis: but you're getting paid for it. >> i love it. ethel.very lucy-o we do antics. she's this character that always has a skiing. maybe she is a little sergeant bill go, except that she is not always trying to make money. she always has a scheme which is one ridiculous thing after another and i have to go along with it here and we all have to go along with it. tavis: after all these years, have you figured out where comedy is concerned what the trick is, what works? because you had wild success and you had a couple things that did not necessarily fly. like, have you figured out, are you still as lost a