 After disclosing that she had not been the first choice for the commencement speech, and that the university only called her after Geraldo Rivera pulled out because he "had a boil that needed to be lanced", she attempts to prepare the new graduates for the hard road ahead by describing a job interview she once had with CBS, in which Walter Cronkite mistakenly thought that she'd "passed gas" and consequently kicked her out of his office.Roseannadanna was later credited as "co-author" of Radner's book "Roseanne Roseannadanna's Hey Get Back to Work".In the last year of her life, Radner released a memoir of her experience with ovarian cancer, entitled "It's Always Something".