Weiss, Lou, 97
Welk, Lawrence, 124, 162, 236
White, Betty, 295
White, Jack, 57
White, Slappy, 187–188, 221, 294
Wicker, Randy, 236
Wilkerson, Billy, 280
Willard, Fred, 171, 172–174
Williams, Bert, 21–22, 69–70
Williams, Dootsie, 191, 192
Williams, Mason, 252
Williams, Robin, 298–299, 356–357
Wilmore, Larry, 331
Wilson, Demond, 291
Wilson, Flip, 257, 273, 289–290
Winchell, Walter, 10, 13, 121
Winters, Jonathan
Bruce and Sahl compared to, 165
comedy changed by, 157, 159, 166
as early improv comic, 165
influence of, 166
on In Living Color, 331–332
nervous breakdown of, 165–166
not understood by television, 165
start on Paar show, 135
television special with Carney, 199–200
theft-proof material of, 159
Witherspoon, Johnny, 299
With Six You Get Eggroll, 258
Wood, Gene, 123
Wood, George, 65
Woodbury, Woody
on being drunk in Las Vegas, 147
comedy record by, 192
on early risqué comedy records, 193
on Hackett’s talent, 144
on Rickles’s supposed anti-Semitism, 150
on South Florida nightclubs, 58–59, 60
World War II, 34, 39–40, 156
Worth, Marvin, 142
Wouk, Herman, 47
Wren, Jack, 120
WTF with Marc Maron, 355–356
Wyatt, Jane, 119
Wynn, Ed
Ed Wynn Show, The, 96
great memory for jokes, 30
at Harry Einstein’s death, 45
made a star by Ziegfield, 21
radio studio audience pioneered by, 30
Wynn, Keenan, 96
You Bet Your Life, 115–116
Young, Alan, 96–97
Young Comedians Special, 325–326
Youngman, Henny
angered by Bruce’s conviction, 226
angered by Sullivan’s cuts, 112
Berle roasted by, 287
on the Borscht Belt, 73
comics started by, 30–31
on Leon and Eddie’s happenings, 83
on the Mob, 66–67
Rock’s early act compared to, 331
sandwich named after, 87
Your Show of Shows, 108–111, 123
Ziegfield, Florenz, 21
Ziegfield Follies, 21
Zolotow, Maurice, 86
Zweibel, Alan, 288
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