America loves to watch people growing and getting better.

My goal is for 'The Bill Engvall Show' to be a show the networks look at and say, 'Ooh, maybe we should get back to the family sitcom.'

No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it's all in code in a language I totally don't understand.

I have fun on stage, so people think maybe they should, too.

Sometimes I forget I have children, which is very strange. I feel guilty about it, as if my inattention will cause something to happen to them, even when I'm not responsible for them - that God will punish me.

There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

I first came to China as a child on a visit with my family in 1978.