I never saw it myself, but in a special about him, they told this story about one episode of The Jack Benny Program.

This is probably familiar to many of you, but Jack Benny's violin duet with Gisele McKenzie on "Getting to Know You" embodied his unselfishness and how much humor he could get with just a look.

If iI could work my will, every idiot who goes about making a Christmas Supercut should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

They asked Caine how he approached acting with the Muppets and he said he prepared and performed "as if they were the Royal Shakespeare Company." That's what makes the performance so great. It's totally straight with no winks to the audience or condescension toward his fellow "actors."

Whether you liked Miller or not, he was the pivotal figure in the 40 years of "Weekend Update." Going back to Chevy, WU was a parody of a newscast. A lot of the humor poked fun at newscast staples like loud sportscasters, eyewitness reporters, and feeble editorial replies. The anchors even wore "WU" lapel pins like…

"The One after 909" was actually one of the first songs they'd written, but was then re-recorded for Let it Be. The original version is on one of the Anthology discs.

Despite Paul's lobbying, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" lost out to "Come Together" to be on the lead single for "Abbey Road" (as a Double A-side with "Something.") I'm sympathetic to Paul's side in some of those three-versus-one disputes, such as over Allen Klein, but Paul was reaching there.

There was a kid version of The Newlywed Game with siblings called I'm Telling. The host was Laurie Fazo (a man), who also played the title character in the Sunday morning kids' show Marlo and the Magic Movie Machine.

Wasn't there a Family Guy-like gap between the original network run of the show and that continuation? The difference being that no one was clamoring for the return of Teri Copley, et al.

Keye Luke was also very good in that episode as the man who ran the orphanage and felt ashamed about having to sell the chocolates on the black market even though he knew it was the right thing to do.

At least in New York (and I assume other cities where NBC owned the affiliates), OOTW started as one of five different sitcoms running weeknights at 7:30 under the promotion "Prime Time Starts at 7:30 This Fall."

Plus, the theme song was a customized version of the Jimmy Van Heusen classic, "Swinging on a Star."

That was also a rare instance of Dennis Miller appearing in a sketch after taking over "Weekend Update." He was George Bailey's war-hero brother Harry.

It could also go into a "Hits We Never Realized Were Covers" column.

The King of the Road to Damascus!

If people think "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is a downer, they don't know Nestor.

That took a lot of guts.

I sure could go for one of those sesame seed-less Big Micks under the golden arcs right now.

I love how when Charles gives the answer he was fed on the show, he personalizes it by adding the word "succumbed."

It is probably a little too polished and on the nose, and Morrow's Boston accent is quite distracting. But the Scofield-Fiennes interactions are magic. I won't blow it here, but Scofield's scene-closing line when they're eating the cake late at night gets me every time.