She also played against type in Flirting with Disaster.

While Chuckles is great (and gave me my handle), this is a great scene too. And the thing is, there is nothing that funny about the situation. It's all in MTM's performance.

My favorite Jack Benny joke deals with his much-maligned flop, "The Horn Blows at Midnight." He is driving into the studio where the guard checks his ID.

As good as the Jack Benny show was, the Phil Harris (and Alice Faye) spinoff holds up even better. Frankie Remley is a character for the ages. Obviously not every episode is a timeless gem, but a surprising amount are, and the humor is surprisingly modern.

Kotter was a good example of that 70s tendency to take a loaded, very serious setting — in this case, an inner city school in Brooklyn packed with "problem kids" — and turn it into a lightweight sitcom. (Good Times is probably the ultimate example.) Kotter really could have been a searing drama.

The one thing this show was realistic about is how small NYC apartments are (and apparently were then). Can't think of any other show that really displays that.

I will always know that Brooklyn is the fourth largest city in America because of this show.

I remember hearing the original phrase was "up your ass with a piece of glass."

My parents used to listen to the original Brel soundtrack all the time and I still enjoy it a lot and I would argue that the interpretations on them trump Walker's by a mile. (But, hey, a lot of times it's what you listened to first.) It wasn't until recently I realized that all the show's French translations—which…

OK Walmart is being horrible here, but as someone who got pretty banged up in a car accident and wasn't wearing a seatbelt, you should always do it.

When you perform, you have to assume that a certain subset of the public won't like you. That is part of the gig.

More than her, it's a pretty good inside look at show biz and what drives comedians.

I hadn't seen her standup in years, but there are excerpts in the (recent) Piece of Work documentary, and they are pretty damn funny. I believe it's on Netflix.

Being scared of Carson (like Sinatra) was part of his mythos. On Youtube, there is a (pretty funny) clip where Don Rickles breaks his ashtray, and quakes in fear.

For a long time, Howard Stern made awful tasteless jokes after her husband killed himself. And Rivers used to go on the show, and he'd make the jokes in front of her. He often expressed amazement at that.

At some point, I think NBC would have viewed loud abrasive Joan Rivers as an imperfect successor to Johnny. (Look who they like: Leno and Fallon.) Of course, we'll never know.

If you have ever heard Joan Rivers' early spots on the Ed Sullivan show, she started out as kind of a female Woody Allen - nervous, insecure, joking about her failures in life. It was only later she turned to the more aggressive persona that made her famous.

Agreed. It's a clever catchy song that became wildly popular. Nothing wrong with that. I don't hear it all that often, so every time I do, I have no problem with it.

I remember the final installment of Trilogy of Terror being one of the greatest things I'd ever watched when I turned it on randomly one night in my teenage years. (I was old enough to realize the first two parts were crap.) I've since learned that the movie (really only the final part) has a cult following because of…

The most terrifying things are the ones people conjure up in their own imagination. And what is terrifying about the ending of "Living Doll" is, it's so open-ended. Now that someone realizes they have a homicidal doll, how do you handle it? How do you "be nice" to it? What do you do?