All Herbed Up.

The actor and radio personality Jay Thomas died today.
This makes me very sad.
He was hilarious.
He was perhaps best remembered for his annual Yuletide appearances with Letterman, where he told his oft-praised story of having had to shepherd Clayton Moore, TV's Lone Ranger.
This was in the 70s.
He was a local deejay, I think in North Carolina.
He was covering the opening of a car dealership and Clayton Moore, in full Lone Ranger regalia,
was on hand to sign autographs.
At the end of the event, Clayton was expecting transportation back to The Red Roof Inn.
But he was left stranded.  Jay and his a friend, of his, a hippie looking type, offered assistance.
The two of them got into a brouhaha with another driver.
Jay described them both he and his friend as being all herbed up.
That line particularly made Letterman laugh.
And, as usual, The Lone Ranger came to their rescue and saved the day.
I can't do justice to the story, much less tell it as well as Jay Thomas did.
Letterman always referred to it as the best story ever told on television .
You need only go to YouTube, where many year's worth of this story are told.
Go get a good laugh and check it out.  Particularly today.
It was always the highlight of the Christmas season for me
That, and Paul Shaffer doing his annual impression of Cher singing "Oh, Holy Night".
The year that Letterman announced his retirement, and Thomas told his Lone Ranger story, Letterman turned to Thomas and said "I'm never going to see you again, am I".
And Thomas said "Nope.  You never will."
And he was right.
I met him once, and had lunch with him, trying to twist his arm to appear in my play.
He liked the play a lot, but he was out of my price range.
I needed him to work for free.
That wasn't good enough.
I guess I can't blame him.
I miss him already.

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