Laughing with Lucy
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Madelyn Pugh Davis and her writing partner, Bob Carroll Jr., have been in the entertainment business for more than 50 years. Together they have written more than 400 television shows—all the I Love Lucy shows as well as The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here’s Lucy, Life with Lucy, and The Mothers-in-Law—and about 300 radio shows. They have produced more than 200 television shows.
Davis and Carroll were Executive Producers on the Private Benjamin and Alice TV series, and they also wrote for Steve Allen, Debbie Reynolds, Dorothy Loudon, and Dinah Shore.
Davis and Carroll are two-time Emmy nominees for their work on I Love Lucy, and they received a Golden Globe Award as the producers of Alice. In 2001, UCLA Film School honored Davis with a Lifetime Achievement in Television Writing.
Content
One: Don’t You Have a Better Joke Than That?
Two: But I Wanted to Be a Foreign Correspondent
Three: Worse Than Married
Four: The Cuban Arm
Five: Lucy Isn’t Pregnant, She’s Expecting
Six: California, Here We Come
Seven: You Wouldn’t Fit in, You’re a Girl
Eight: Bon Voyage
Nine: Our Longest Laugh
Ten: The Mertzes (or as Desi Called Them, “The Merzes”)
Eleven: What’s New?
Twelve: Did You Really Try out All Those Stunts?
Thirteen: I’m Going over to the Pope’s House
Fourteen: Your Show’s Only Half an Hour; What Do You Do the Rest of the Week?
Fifteen: Don’t Step on the Children
Sixteen: Who Am I?
Seventeen: Who’s the Pushy Broad at the End of the Table?
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