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" I guess people wonder if I'm the same on camera as I am off, and I'm pretty much the same, I really am. But that's always asked of me. "

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" My first job was being a page at 'The Tonight Show.' I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies. "

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