Nat Bernstein

Nat Bernstein joined me to talk bout guest starring on The Golden Girls; early TV memories; going out to LA after college on a whim; getting a PA job on Angie; taking acting class with Gordon Hunt; early appearances on Bosom Buddies, Taxi, Mork & Mindy and Hill Street Blues; getting s free hairpiece for Hill Street; appearances on Newhart and Night Court; different ways people get into show business; The Wonder Years; writing a Wonder Years spec script; paying it forward; writing Opportunity Knocks; writing for Baby Boom; getting Doogie Howser, MD; Neil Patrick Harris; Doogie loses his virginity; how the computer tag was the hardest part of the episode to write; being nominated for a Scott Newman Drug Awareness Award; Markus Redmond; James B. Sikking; selling CBS and ABC The Gregory Hines Show and Over the Top at the same time; Annie Potts and Tim Curry; Norman Lear; Bruce Vilanch; Center of the Universe with John Goodman; Ed Asner; Jean Smart; Olympia Dukakis; Judd Hirsch; Rev. Jim's driving test; working for Nickelodeon's Supah Ninja and for Brian Robbins; Jay Kogen; how hard it is to keep friends in Hollywood where you may be working on a different show every year