![]() ![]() I said, "No, no, I don't want more money. I was always able to get money wherever I went. ![]() So I said, "I'm leaving!" They said, "We'll add another writer to the staff! We'll give you more money!" Well, money has never been an incentive for me. If you're #1, they want to keep you there. They don't know if it's the writing or the acting. They said, "Wait, wait, wait!" We were #1 at the time and they didn't want to lose #1. And in all his interviews he refers very deprecatingly to writers in general and his own in particular." And I said, "I'm not going to be here anymore." And I said goodbye. And the voice of God tells me how to fix things." So the next day I went to CBS and I said, "Goodbye." I said, "I've taken a lot of verbal abuse from Red. Red said, "Every week, when I get those lousy scripts from the writers I yawn. ![]() The host, I forget who it was, asked him, "How is it that all the other big comics have gone through specials and you continue to do a half-hour every single week? How is that possible?" They asked him how does he account for the fact he was the only one left. Well, I was watching late television one evening, during my seventh year with Red. It was a rough week, our week in the barrel. Here you have 70 pairs of eyes staring at you while you're trying to think of something. used to being in the room with another writer or by himself. Sometimes she would be doing a scene, and she would say, "I need a line." Then, the stage would be quiet for a moment, 75 production people were scattered around the stage and you had to get a better line or a better blackout. Where one of us had to be on the stage while the other two continued to write next week's script. I was one of three writers on the Joan Davis show and so, we always referred to that as our week in the barrel. She wanted to be able to turn to somebody and say, "I need a better line" or "Give me a better blackout." So, there were three writers. She refused to do the show unless a writer was on the premises, on the stage. She had one great virtue which became a problem. ![]()
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