But when you're traveling with a big band, and say you're on a bus, say Duke Ellington's band. You're on the bus with those sixteen guys, whatever, you know perhaps twelve or more hours a day. Every day. For years, right? And you know you're with them more than you're with your own family. So there better be some humorous things going on, you know? It's like you're living with people that ... it's hard enough to live with your own family, let alone twenty other people's families.