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Joey was a more urban guy from south philadelphia. i m starting the show like this tonight, and i understand next week johnny carson may do a show just like this. [ laughter ] bishop was a this strange show. it s almost flukish to watch. are we on? yes. [ laughter ] the reason i ask is because it s going so slow. joey was often in a bad mood. for a guy who don t show up for rehearsals you sure talk a lot. i ll tell you that. cbs, meanwhile, hires merv griffin, who had been doing a great syndicated black-and-white talk show for westinghouse. it s the merv griffin show! merv griffin was just light and fun and fluffy. what do you get when you fall in love he loved everybody. and he had the funniest people on. ....
here s woody allen! i m too cowardly to be a protest comic. i m in favor of all those things that we ve come to know and hate about merv griffin, despite almost a milquetoast reputation, was always more willing to have people on that represented aspects of the counterculture. dr. timothy leary has been described as being either a prophet or a fiend. how many times have you taken lsd, doctor? i ve taken lsd 311 times. in 1969 when the merv griffin show debuted on cbs, for the first time ever you have what you would now call the late-night wars. merv versus joey versus johnny. there s been much discussion in the papers and in magazines about the three-way competition. and i want to set the record straight. i think carson does a great job. bishop does a great job. ....
We re going to try to entertain you. and there s room for everybody. and may the best man win. the merv griffin show really cut into joey bishop s audience in a big way. and then when joey bishop didn t work, they thought let s go a little younger and a little more new york. ladies and gentlemen, dick cavett! dick cavett was our first intellectual on television. i m dick cavett. funnier than chet huntley, taller than mickey rooney and as pure and honest as newark, new jersey. johnny was awfully nice to me when i started doing a show. he gave me advice when i d call him. and i realized then that johnny does not, as they say, have a ramrod up his ass. what does carson not have that maybe a competing talk show could use to draw viewers away? ....