| This is not the story of my life and I ll tell you why. Those who knew my idol, W. C. Fields, have told me titwhen a young writer asked for permission to write the storyhis life, the great one replied, "Please do. Capital idea. Dcright away. I can t wait to see how it turns out." I feel the same way Fields did. I d like to know what rfinish is. That s important to anyone who has ever docomedy. That s why we all live with that embarrassing feeliyou get when you re in the middle of a yarn and suddenly reize that you ve forgotten the finish . . . the punch line. H~rible feeling. So, since I have no way of knowing the big, getaway finito my life (where the ship is sinking and I tear off my life jacet and give it to Johnny Carson), this book must remain me1ly a collection of incidents, .activities, and happenings thastill remember. Time, with a little help from an occasioltoddy, could easily turn them into gross exaggerations, mamoth lies, or completely erase them from my mind. But everything is as true as memory could re-create it arin one way or another, is a milestone along the route ttbrought me tb that seat on the right of Johnny Carson whichave occupied for over thirteen years, five nights a we~fifty-two weeks a year, exclusive, of course, of the niglJohnny takes off and I m seated on the right of the highlyperienced Joey Bishop or McLean Stevenson, John Davson, Sammy Davis, Bob Klein, David Steinberg, Pearl Bail~Joan Rivers. John Denver. Liberace, Karen Valentine, |
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