At 4, 5, or 6 it was Flip Wilson's Geraldine and many antic of cd on Laugh In. Between 6 and 11 it was Klinger from MASH. At 11, Billy Crystal played Jodie on Soap which while still part of situational comedy, offered a seriousness to his life style right down to suicidal depression. It was also around this time I read a Robert Heinlin novel about a rich old guy with a rare blood type who was paying for a brain transplant but the only available person to be killed during this crucial point was a young beautiful woman...I was mesmerized and finished with the hope that one day I could get my brain transplanted into a beautiful woman. I think it was called Stranger in a Strange Land (?). Then, there were also Saturday Night Live, Second City TV, Monty Python, Bennie Hill and countless other variety type comedies throughout my life...Bosom Buddies, Crying Game, Soldier's Story all came later but still provided validation that there may be a few others out there that are interested in things that interest me.
