Tonya Mosley

I know you liked him very much.

You were close.

Having had three deaths, your parents and your grandfather when you were young, and being raised culturally but not religiously Jewish, did you sit shiva?

Shiva is the Jewish tradition for seven days, not doing anything.

You sit on a hard bench.

If you're seriously observing, you cover all the mirrors because it's no time for vanity.

And you just talk with people and cry and laugh about the person who you're grieving.

Did you do that?

Right.

I'm seeing you in such a different light.

You know, I'm so glad that you did the show and are showing us this side of yourself.

It's like so a kind of complex and deep knowing all that you experienced.

When you went to college, which was in Boston, after having lived your life in New Jersey, did you use that as an opportunity to rethink who you were and remake yourself into the person who you wanted to be or thought that you were?

Were you the guitarist or what?

How did you figure that out?

You knew some of those old school comics.

You knew Buddy Hackett.

And you knew Don Rickles.

You joined the Friars Club when you were how old?

So we have to wrap up soon, I regret to say, but I have a request.