Remember Gene Rayburn? If you do, you probably recall him as the host of the quiz show, The Match Game, but he did a lot more than that. He was Steve Allen's announcer on the original Tonight (later known as The Tonight Show) and he was an actor. Neil Simon's first play was Come Blow Your Horn and you know who the first actor was who starred in that play? Gene Rayburn. His career has now been chronicled in a book called The Matchless Gene Rayburn (that's an Amazon link, hint hint) by Adam Nedeff. And Adam Nedeff is Stu's Shostak's guest on today's Stu's Show. You'll hear all about Mr. Rayburn and you'll be surprised at all the other things he did besides ask questions to which Charles Nelson Reilly could answer, "Buns."
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