Dick Van Dyke

Yeah, Cosby as a detective.

Dick Van Dyke.

As a doctor.

Diagnosis murder.

He's 87 years old.

But I bet, it's like Dick Van Dyke would probably break his hip in a funny way.

Dude, Rafi looks like Ray Stevens a little bit.

Yeah, kind of

Yes, heat blotches all over me and limping.

And when I was there, they called me for a national commercial with Dick Van Dyke.

And I had been studying and struggling and hadn't really cracked the big time.

And when I went on that interview, there was 50 other people, women, that looked like me.

And then when I was nine years old, I held a thermometer up to a light bulb and and then shook it and gave myself a fake fever of 101 and stayed home from school for probably about six weeks.

And the reason I did that was I was obsessed with the Dick Van Dyke Show, which was shown as a repeat in syndication.

WPIX was the local channel, and they had every sitcom you can imagine.

And I loved them all.

Petticoat Junction, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, I Love Lucy.

But I got sucked in by the Dick Van Dyke Show.

And the fact that he worked as a writer on a comedy show and there was a

writer's room.

Here's one, laughter.

In my book, I ask the question, what do the following longevity experts have in common? Bob Hope, George Burns, Dick Van Dyke, Betty White, Phyllis Diller, I could go on, Art Linkletter.

They all were comedians.

They all outlived the average by 10 or 20 years.

And I do like, you know, there's these kids.

I remember a Dick Van Dyke episode where Rob Petrie was appalled because he went to a Saturday matinee of some, like, monster movie.

And he's like, oh, the kids were like, you know, cheering for the monster.

And it's like, you know, that's terrible.

They were, like, too charming, you know? Like, I wanted somebody who was weird.

Like, I was looking at Martin Sheen and, like, Dick Van Dyke, but they're too, like, likable.

Like, you need somebody who's kind of creepy a little bit.

Yeah, but they could pull off

being creepy.

Especially,

like, Dick Van Dyke.

That's true, but the guy I settled on is a bit of a deep cut mark.

And so I didn't get paid, but you know, so just to like see it all coming back and Westlake Village Inn is like their tree lighting ceremony is like so iconic.

Like Dick Van Dyke used to do it and Hot Coco and Pacific Festival Ballet would like dance at it.

So it's like all, resurging again, which I think is like nostalgia

and amazing.