At a virtual 92Y talk with Rosie O’Donnell, the comic said, “My car is getting four months to the gallon.”

Gold, whose new book is “Yes, I Can Say That,” said distancing keeps her out of some awkward moments. “I don’t have to have any sloppy kissers coming up to me … There are funny things about COVID, and it doesn’t take away that 150,000 people have died, it doesn’t change the situation, it is a Band-Aid.”