Thanks to 77,302,580 ignorant voters on 5 Nov 2024, we are all now suffering through the Fourth Reich.
~snip~
As promised for A. Friend (and others), here is another vignette from a happier time long ago.
The King of Late Night Comedy, Johnny Carson, hosted two fellow TV immortals only once during his multi-decade career: Ed Sullivan and Jackie Gleason.
The reasoning I won't speculate on, but both icons were superbly received by the NBC crew and the audience.

Tangent: Elvis Presley and Bruce Lee never appeared on the Tonight Show.
Meanwhile, Johnny Carson hosted Muhammad Ali several times and the "Greatest" not only kept up with Johnny Carson in witty banter, but in one show he flummoxed Johnny so badly that is only retort was to playfully hit Muhammad Ali.
And the two greatest martial artists of that long ago era, Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee, tragically never met.
#99 Legally says, ...a coward and a liar"
Yep.
He's listed among the Retort liars and cowards.