The legendary talk show host wrote jokes — quickly — for Paar and Carson. But his speed left him when he started writing his own material: "That was a real shock — to learn that I could fill a page and annoy the other writers on the staff of The Tonight Show by having my stuff ready and handed in before they were half finished … So imagine the awfulness of learning that I can’t just put my name at the top of the page and write stuff for my nightclub act at zip speed."
November 27, 2014
