"IT'S A LOVING"
The time, September 1985. The place, MTM Radford Studios, fabulous Studio CIty, California. The situation, a hit is born and Hecuba goes "one on one" with an actress to be named later... when I'm dead! While the rest of the cast and crew are gathered in director's chairs on the main restaurant set watching the first episode of "It's A Living" beam across the 20 inch Sony sitting stage center, yours truly found himself sitting on a bed on the swing set of "Jan's room" working on a better "Hello Joke" than the one we had. (More on "Hello Jokes" in a future glossary item.) But who comes over to supposedly go over the proper delivery of a joke than one of the stars of the show. I won't tell you the lady's name, because I'm a gentleman, but before I could say "Went On To Star On Wings", she grabs me by the Members Only jacket, if you know what I mean. One thing leads to another and Madame X and me find ourselves rolling around in the editor's booth. We put our clothes back on, say it was just one of those things and head back down to the stage, where we run into Fred Adelman, the president of the network.
Fred says "Hey, Harold (not my real name), and the chick shits a brick. I gather from her reaction that she thought I was Fred! She thought she was screwing the head of the network, not some ink-stained gag man! She went on to finally put the blocks to Fred after all, his wife found out and then jumped off an overpass on the 134 Freeway. Caused a 9 hour traffic jam and I didn't get home till 2AM. Yes, sir, comedy is a funny business.
