Alan Rosenberg: If you talk about the role of humor and laughter. Does it help keep you young?

Elaine Stritch: Okay! I was very, very tired, very tired, and out of sorts, and I very rarely use this word, but I think I was a little "down." "Depressed," I don't have any truck with at all. I got a call from Marty Short, and he wanted to see my club act. That night after my show - I never go out - but I was finished, and I went to dinner in the dining room at the Carlisle Hotel with Marty Short. And I wanna tell you something - I laughed! We went to dinner at 9:30, and we left at a quarter to 3 in the morning, and I could hardly walk. And let me tell you something - and you know, in the days gone by, there were other reasons for that, but this was sheer, unadulterated laughter! And I just cannot tell you the difference in how I felt Monday morning than from most mornings that week that I had awakened. It was incredible! And listen! Hang on to this! Find people who make you laugh, because it is a tonic. They don't have prescription drugs to even hold a candle to what I'm talkin' about. This is somethin' else, and it's true that laughter is one of the greatest panaceas ever, ever, ever. So don't lose it!