![]() ![]() I’m not sure why I thought you had to be thin to be in a comedy act, but in those days I thought you had to be thin to be in anything. So from the minute I set down my $75 and made arrangements with his lawyer, who was taking the money, I went on a diet. Let’s go in and have some lunch and figure out some details. This is all I have ever wanted to do.”Īnd Alan, who was the co-star in my little one-act, was going to say, “I’ve been wanting to go on the road too, but I needed to find the right partner. “ Thought? Are you kidding me? That’s all I have done since the first time I saw Imogene Coca and SId Caesar on ‘Your Show of Shows,’ and then Nichols and May when they did that piece about the astronaut and the Jewish mother. Have you thought about going on the road with a partner?” By the end of the set, Alan would say, “YOU! Are. By the end of the game, we would both be on such a roll we almost couldn’t continue. My little theater piece, in my mind, went something like this: Alan and I would be on the same side, and one of us would start with a funny bit, and the other would add to it, and before anyone could lob a ball into our court, we would be doubled over in laughter at our own electric brilliance. The fantasy had nothing to do with tennis and everything to do with my desperate dream of becoming a part of a comedy duo, à la Nichols and May, Mike Nichols of directing fame, and Elaine May, writer and director. So there I was, not really a tennis player, but with a fantasy of meeting Alan. ![]()
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