It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Monday, March 30, 2026

I Was A Mere Toddler When This Talk Show First Aired

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This episode of
first aired on
December 15, 1971
 
 The air date was less than two months
after my parents' death:
qualifying me
as a freshly minted
Adult Orphan
 
Mailer 
expressed great admiration for
Muhammed Ali
and quoted the philosopher
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Suffice it to say
this was a brilliant
—and controversial —
example of Late Night TV
 
It was talked about
(and quoted)
for many years
 
BUT NO ONE 
mentioned the censorship
that happened 
before air-time
 
Someone seated 
in the nosebleed section
applauded 
when Kierkegaard's name 
was mentioned
 
That someone was me
who stayed up
 past midnight 
to hear himself 
clapping hands
 
BUT
my applause 
got bleeped
 
!!!  
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