Interview Hazel Shermet In her two-and-a-half-hour interview, Hazel Shermet (1920-2016) speaks of her stage work, her many radio appearances on The Kate Smith Hour , The Milton Berle Show , and The Fred Allen Show , and her role as "Miss Duffy" on the series Duffy's Tavern . She talks about her work on the late 1940s...
Interview Anne Beatts Anne Beatts (1947-2021) says of getting her break in comedy writing: "I always say very freely when people ask, 'how did you get into comedy?' I say 'the same way that Catherine the Great got into politics.' It wasn't like some Machiavellian scheme on my part, it was just that I was attracted to...
Show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in was the NBC comedy-variety program which became an important training ground for a generation of comic talent. If The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour captured the political earnestness and moral conscience of the 1960s counterculture, Laugh-in snared its flamboyance, its...
