The man can talk. It's not 100 percent perfect. He's still working on it becoming more perfect, but he's certainly capable of doing the show. Otherwise he wouldn't be here. There's no facial contortion. There never was any facial contortion.

He's in New York. He's going to be on TV Saturday.

He's walking and talking as he has been for months. He's looking forward to doing the show Saturday.

They'll do roughly the same amount of stuff during that hour and a half.

It's obviously nothing Andy would have hoped for. But at least a decision has been made not to have surgery for now, and we can move on.

Is he 100 percent perfect? No. But he's certainly well enough to get on a plane and go to New York to do his portion of the show.

The phone in my office started ringing at 7 a.m. (Friday) and hasn't stopped.

He just wants the show to be the coming out party.

He just wants to fine-tune it before he sticks his head out ? makes his return to television.

He wants this to be the coming-out party.