Did anyone see Carl Reiner on Jay Leno last night? I didn't even know he was going to be on, I just happened to turn it on when I couldn't sleep last night.

He was great! He is such a gentleman. He would not say the word "fart" on TV! He talked around it and spelled it "p-h-a-r-t." He was telling a story of one of his appearances with Johnny Carson. He was having a great deal of pain and thought he was having a heart attack. Johnny tried to get him to go to the hospital, but Carl said the show must go on. He said he did his talking really fast so he could get to the hospital. At the hospital they ran a battery of tests on him, checking his heart, etc. While this was going on, he said, he "released some gas." Relief was immediate. The doctors told him he was fine and sent him home. He said, "That p-h-a-r-t cost me $2,600!" It was hilarious and I was so impressed that he was trying to be "delicate" on national TV!
He did talk about "The Alan Brady Show" coming up on the 17th. And they showed a clip of him on the pilot of "Head of the Family," the precursor to "The Dick Van Dyke Show." He talked about that and how TDVDS came to be.
It was a good appearance. I wish it would have been longer!


Lolac :wave:

yea, I saw hhim. I also wish he could have been on longer.
And I didn't know that he wrote 13 scripts (but only filmed one) for "Head of the Family" (the precurrsor to "The Dick Van Dyke show"). After that first one he decided he didn't want to continue with it, then, later, Sheldon Lenoard (the producer of Van Dyke) talked him into coming back to it. Since he didn't want to play the role, he said they would get someone else for it.

After that first one he decided he didn't want to continue with it, then, later, Sheldon Lenoard (the producer of Van Dyke) talked him into coming back to it. Since he didn't want to play the role, he said they would get someone else for it.

I've always heard/read that network executives liked the script but thought that Reiner's Jewishness wouldn't be accepted by Middle America, and they wanted some one more midwestern looking.