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Okay. Cut to: seventeen years later. I am in my "Odd Couple" office on the second floor of building H on the Paramount lot. Dow...

Okay. I left off on this one telling you about my approaching Johnny Carson at the foot of the stage at the Little Theatre on 44th Street, ...

As we are arriving at the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, I'm ...

I've had a few personal encounters with Johnny Carson over the years. The first one was in the summer of 1959. I'll help you with ...

I've just recently finished reading the new biography of Johnny Carson, written by his former attorney, Henry "Bombastic" Bush...

Ron Howard, as we know, was the first-billed star on "Happy Days". When "Happy Days went 3-camera live-audience, he very qui...

I referred to myself a while back as the Lord of the Idiots when I wrote about thinking my rental car was stolen and calling the police when...

To wrap this up, I will present a list of wonderful performers that SNL had the good taste to originally hire, and the bad taste to not have...

The rest of the SNL cast members who made some sort of impact and whom I had less than any use for (alphabetically, and subjectively): 1- ...

Once the original SNL cast was set, and people began to leave, the next forty years or so was spent in attempting to fill various niches lef...

My friend Mark Evanier e-mailed me to inform me that Albert Brooks' Famous Comedians School didn't air on SNL, but rather on a show ...

Well, the total is now up to nineteen (or so). The number of times I laughed out loud over something I saw over the last forty years (or so...

I think one of the major problems I've had with "Saturday Night Live" over the years has been the continuing looming presence ...

It finally happened. After almost forty years, I finally came to my senses. Or at least what's left of my senses. At long last, I vol...

There is a local restaurant that my wife and I frequent here in Michigan. It is a bit swanky, and we frequent it when we are in a bit of a ...

I did a four hour interview at the Television Academy in Burbank for the Archives of TV Legends at EmmyTVLegends.org. last Friday. I had al...

Greetings from Malibu, where my computer access is extremely limited, and will be for the next couple of days. I just wanted to let you all...

This is the final chapter. After Lowell Ganz and I split up, his career flourished, and mine was floundering. Lowell was immediately hire...

After Lowell and I had produced a couple of flop series at Paramount, a new President of Paramount had been brought in. He had immediately ...

Last time, I promised you other ways that Lowell humiliated me in public. Here goes: I was once standing next to him when he was talking ...