How can I access the table comment from a mysql table?

How can I get just the table comment from a mysql table? I tried the following, but they didn't work for various reasons. I want to figure out how to get just the string 'my comment' (ideally via perl =)

Any help?

-- Abbreviated output for convenience.
SHOW TABLE STATUS WHERE Name="foo"
+------+--------+---------+------------+------+----------------+---------------+
| Name | Engine | Version | Row_format | Rows | Create_options | Comment       |
+------+--------+---------+------------+------+----------------+---------------+
| foo  | MyISAM |      10 | Fixed      |    0 |                | my comment    | 
+------+--------+---------+------------+------+----------------+---------------+

and

SHOW CREATE TABLE foo;
+-------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Table | Create Table                                                                 |
+-------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| fooo  | CREATE TABLE `fooo` (`id` int(11) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY) COMMENT='my comment' | 
+-------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+