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Rayburn gets a chance to host The Tonight Show for a week while Johnny Carson’s on vaction!

Feb 13, 2017

Back in late 60’s Gene Rayburn was asked to host The Tonight Show for a week while Johnny Carson was away on vacation. Since Gene and I were working together on The Match Game and having a lot of fun, he asked me to come up with something silly we could do on...

After the question “are you related to the Dick DeBartolo whose name appears on the Match Game credits?”, the second most asked question is:

Dec 16, 2016

Do you get residuals from those endless reruns of theold Match Game shows? Well the answer is technically “yes”. I got residuals just once. When the shows first went over to the Game Show Network I got two checks. I remember hearing that some money would...