I'm Not Quite As Much Of A

I Grew Up In Danville, Illinois, Right In The Middle Of The State.

I Wanted To Be Stan Laurel, Then I Wanted To Be Fred Astaire And Then Captain Kangaroo. I Actually Started Out As A Radio Announcer When I Was 17 And Never Left The Business So That's Literally 70 Years.

One Day In '61, I Was Looking In The Santa Monica Phone Book For A Number, And There It Was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue In Santa Monica. I Went Over There And Spent The Afternoon With Them. And Pumped Him With Questions. I Must Have Driven Him Crazy. I Spent A Lot Of Happy Hours At Stan's House On Sundays Just Talking About Comedy.

I Think It's Being Thrown At The Wolves, We Call It In Our Business.

But Once We Got On The Air, Everybody Except Morey Amsterdam Pretty Much Stuck To The Script.