Jeff Ross

Cheech and Chong were playing music and doing sketches, but at the heart of it, they were comedians.

I didn't know that word, comedians.

I thought comedians were, you know, on Johnny Carson, my parents' generation.

You know, and I got a lot from that, too.

There was like I remember just, you know, listening.

I would never watch because it was late.

But I remember hearing Buddy Hackett and Don Rickles on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

I would sit at the top of the stairs where my parents couldn't see me and I would listen.

I could hear them laughing at comedians on TV.

So I think it rubbed off on me.

Oh, boy.

I was probably in my early 30s.

And...

That was the coolest.

I would play poker there with Greg Fitzsimmons and Elon Gold, and they had a poker room, the George Burns poker room, where we could order lunch and play poker.

And then they had a billiards room, and then they had a steam room and a gym, and then they had a dining room where you might see Milton Berle or Buddy Hackett sitting under their own portrait.

Anything.

Terry Gross.

Terry Gross has been around so long.

She interviewed Ed Sullivan.