“I don’t know how to explain Jack. His quicksilver, odd, impetuous, witty, unsettled, suspicious personality … and there are ten more things you could throw in that list. To me, it made him the most compelling face that’s ever been on the television.” ~ Dick Cavett on Jack Paar, Archive of American Television (EmmyLegends.com)
Laughing Gas Lounge
Originally published in June 2026 in Blog
“I’m part of the expensively educated downwardly mobile professional class. I sure am glad I didn’t get that Ph.D in art history, otherwise I’d have to buy a care to live out of.” For more laughs, check out Noam Scheiber’s article, “The Politics of the Downwardly Mobile Professional Class,” New York Times Magazine (June 7, […]
