Rich Halke & William Lucas Walker

Rich Halke and William Lucas Walker joined me to talk about their influences (William - Dick Van Dyke & Gilligan's Island and Rich HBO Comedy Hours); family members and friends who are funnier than you; Rich Rosenstock; David Lloyd & Jay Sandrich; how writing for The Jackie Thomas Show got William a job on Roseanne; Norm MacDonald; the Gilligans Island - Roseanne mash up; starting Sundays at 7; Rich meets Carmen Finestra; Eddie Maxwell; Fred Fox Sr,; George Balzer; Sidney Resnick and the importance of family; bringing a baby to the Friars Club; Leonard Stern; Carl Reiner tells many stories, one about Danny Simon's sons head size; Treva Silverman; the genesis of The Mary Tyler Moore Show;  Treva saves the day on MTM many times and gives great notes; Bob Carroll and Marilyn Pugh Davis; Korby Siamis & Tom Fontana influence Bill; Rich helps start the Television Academy Interview webpage; William talks about working with June Lockhart & Milton Berle; William's Frasier episode Roz's Krantz & Gouldenstein Are Dead; James Earl Jones; Irma Kalish writes Maude's abortion, Bob Newhart nixes one on his show; Garry Marshall; Michelle Pfeiffer's hands; Ed Asner; David Lloyd saves Frasier; Allan Burns, Treva Silverman saves Kathleen Turner; Home Improvement's pilot; casting decisions; Michael Fishman; Glenn Quinn; how to write a spec script; what these dinners mean to them.