Mo Rocca (2014)

You know, I need to get Carl to recording my outgoing message. Peter IS cool. He rides a motorcycle. He's the best thing to happen to baldness since Telly Savalas.

This is a flattering question. At times I've done many projects (sometimes simultaneously) precisely because I did doubt myself. But for the most part, I've always been that guy that preferred the variety pack of cereals. I liked exploring lots of different things.

That's changed over time. (My cooking show is the fullest expression of my skills and interests. Writing for Wishbone remains my most formative experience. It's where I learned to tell a story.)

But I can say that I don't ever regret doing so many projects. When you can't answer that annoying question, "What exactly do you want to do?" - and I never could - then the next best thing you can do is Pollacking (as in Jackson): throw a bunch of things against the wall and see what sticks.

Thank you, my hair has never looked better. (Hint: I'm not shampooing every day.) I did have lice when I was in 4th grade but that was only because I used Prell. And lice love Prell.

Not yet. The last episode of My Grandmother's Ravioli will feature me making ravioli. Then, as I leave the kitchen and walk toward camera, the kitchen behind me will blow up.

In Hermosillo, Mexico: an eyeball taco

Well I'm so glad you asked. Innovation Nation is a wonderful new show I am hosting on CBS Saturday Mornings. It's about the great inventors of the past and the current innovations inspired by them. Much of it takes place at the AMAZING Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. As someone who grew up in DC, I can tell you that the Henry Ford is every bit as cool as the Smithsonian.

I would love to do I Love the 90s ... the 1890s. I'm a big history buff. I've got great material on William McKinley and the Gibson Girl.

I really like all the panelists. Maybe we get along so well because: 1. We're all in different parts of the business. 2. We see each other every few weeks so it's always nice to catch up.

Dick Van Dyke was my favorite guest.

I learned a whole lot. Maybe the hardest working person I've met. He had a vision for the show as a whole, not simply as a vehicle for himself. Otherwise pretty normal. He's not the weird comic hiding away, then turning "on" for the camera.

About 30. I do this before I leave the house, even if it's just to buy milk. I spell long words out - one letter per pushup - so that I don't think about the pain. Words like "Tajikistani" or "Azerbainjani". Central Asian countries are very useful when working out.

Not in my bedroom. ("mini-Mo" is the Barbie doll that Mattel made for me.)

Kinda

(sigh) okay, if Jay Z insists....

LOVED WRITING FOR PEPPER ANN. I got to make a Johnnie Cochran reference in one episode!

I loved that I finally had a repository for all the pop culture junk that was crowding my skull for all those years. It literally was starting to hurt. So spewing it out during all those VH1 shows was a relief.

Funny. I believe that Jon Stewart called Reza the Muslim Mo Rocca. Tying a bowtie is tricky. Hard to know what hole to push it through.

The "it" being the cloth.

Hell yeah, I'd love that. I do love doing CBS Sunday Morning (like going back to college and taking only electives) and I am LOVING doing Innovation Nation, WHICH PREMIERES THIS SATURDAY MORNING ON CBS!!

I loved doing a piece on the epidemic of rogue cocks on the streets of Key West.

No. If you go in with a joke, it's bound to fail. The show is always funnier when the panelists are spontaneous. The audience can sniff out a rehearsed joke and they like it.

I wanted to see how it would look. One thing's for sure: I'll never dye it. Men should not dye their hair. There, I've said it.

I love the way kangaroos have babies.

Oops, I thought I answered this. I LOVED being on Broadway and it must happen again. I should be Hysterium in Forum! And I would love to play Skimbleshanks the railway cat in Cats. He's a very underrated cat.

I liked everyone I met doing the Masons story. If I didn't travel so much ... if i weren't so busy ... I'd consider joining a fraternal organization.

Not the chihuahuas. (Wait a sec, are chihuahuas actually dogs?)

I'm be lucky to tune Charlie's piano for him! (Wait a minute, that sounds kind of raunchy.)

No. Can you believe it? :) But Charlie Rose and I will one day do Amazing Race together. He does not know this yet.

Listen aggressively. I always feel good in an interview when a few minutes in the interviewee stops spewing talking points and looks at me with an expression that says "Oh, you're actually LISTENING to me? I don't need to tell you the same things I just told 35 other reporters."

It's a great idea, thanks. I become concerned about spreading myself too thin, though. But I'll think about it! Hope you can tune into my new show - Innovation Nation - this Saturday morning on CBS.

Well cultural sensitivity is a good thing. But cultural "sensitivity" only leads to more tiptoeing around issues that people should talk LESS carefully about. And that means more bottled up emotions. (I'm very proud that on My Grandmother's Ravioli, the featured grandparents are NOT censored. They're not afraid. Why should the audience be?)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show or All in the Family

The giant bust of Grover Cleveland.

ONE FOR EACH. Not playing favorites. We don't need any more Bleeding Kansas.

Yes, I've learned to like what I like, not what I think I should like. And please do tune into Innovation Nation. It's a tribute to the people who changed the world by embracing THEIR inner nerds!

I kind of still love the Monkees.

If you do it right, I'll purr.

That would be like choosing my favorite child! (And when I do have children, I'll be sure to do another reddit AMA and let you know which kid is my favorite.)

Like a magazine editor if magazine editors were paid like plumbers. I have no complaints.

I can't stop listening to Dusty Springfield's cover of the Windmills of My Mind.

I used to like Daiquiri Ice. Now I like Butter Pecan.

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I love A Place in the Sun. I used to love chimichangas.