My longtime pal (of close to 40 years) Bruce Reznick found something wonderful on the web. He sent it to me so I can share it with all of you.
Emerson College is assembling a library of oral histories of comedy. Bill Dana (yes, Jose Jiminez) and Project Manager Jenni Matz have interviewed more than fifty important comedians and comedy writers on videotape and a sampling of this material is available online. You can read the transcripts of interviews with Dana, Louis Nye, Don Knotts, Larry Gelbart, Tom Poston, Bill Persky, Ed Begley Jr., Jay Sandrich, Phyllis Diller, Dick Gregory and Jan Murray. There are also video excerpts of some of the conversations. Here's the link you want. Enjoy…and don't thank me. Thank Bruce.