By Agence France-Presse, Updated: 9/28/2011

Andy Rooney, the avuncular but short author whose essays on dweller chronicle hit over "60 Minutes" broadcasts for more than 30 years, is leaving the programme information this week, according to CBS.

Andy Rooney leaving '60 Minutes': CBS

Rooney, 92, will foretell his feat on Sunday, his test lawful attendance on the pioneering TV exhibit where he has been flooded instance since 1978, and as an irregular presenter since the program's inception 10 eld earlier, the meshwork said.

"There's nobody like Andy and there never will be. He'll dislike chance this, but he's an dweller original," CBS News chair and "60 Minutes" chief shaper Jeff Fager said in a statement.

Sunday's programme will feature Rooney's 1,097th example essay for the program.

He has cursive on essential and weighty topics much as war, automobile safety, vie in America, manlike relationships and politics, success quaternary accolade awards in the process.

But he is perhaps prizewinning famous for his concise and ofttimes grave comments on dweller culture, its excesses, and the alacritous measure of modify over the years.

While he couches his essays in the first-person -- "What I meet don't see is," he ofttimes says -- they are aimed at the dweller everyman.

"The things I write and feature on broadcasting are for regular, normal, average, routine Americans," he erst said.

Rooney wrote his prototypal TV essay in 1964, titled "An Essay on Doors." He followed that up with essays on bridges, hotels, women, chairs, and in 1968, "The Strange Case of the arts Language."

They resonated with jillions of viewers, and Rooney became a old grappling on the diminutive screen. Fager described Rooney's two-minute contributions to the exhibit as "immeasurable."

While his grumpy verbal attacks hit condemned facetious tones, they ofttimes skewered dweller bureaucracy, regulations or incompetence.

"I was frisked by a man who wouldn't hit famous a assail from a Band-aid," he said terminal assemblage in a rave most airfield security.

In past eld Rooney spent hebdomad after hebdomad mutter most the complexities and excesses of 21st century life, querulous most so-called advances in technology, or ruing most how recent gild and expressing glee that it seemed to be leaving him behind.

"I'm not fascinated in having my books on an electronic device. I poverty them in books," he said early this year.