I Wanted To Work With Bert Lahr

We Did An Episode On Good Times Which Came Out Of A Newspaper Article About The Incidence Of Hypertension In Black Males Being Higher Than Whites, And Increasing. So We Did A Show In Which James, The Father On Good Times, Had Hypertension.

Life Is Made Up Of Small Pleasures. Happiness Is Made Up Of Those Tiny Successes. The Big Ones Come Too Infrequently. And If You Don't Collect All These Tiny Successes, The Big Ones Don't Really Mean Anything.

I Wanted To Meet Bob Hope, And I Got To Know Him Pretty Well.

We Mocked That Concept ['movies Are Better Than Ever'] By Doing A Sketch That Was About A Theater Trying To Get One Customer To Come In...and That Customer Was Jerry Lewis. It Generated So Much Controversy That Dean [martin] And Jerry [lewis] Had To Apologize In A Full Page Ad In Variety.

Ed Simmons And I Became Stars In The Emerging Medium Of Television. We Were New And Fresh, Just Like Tv At The Time, So We Automatically Became 'the' Comedy Writers For Television.