I particularly miss all the shows I was on: “Laugh-In” (absolutely the show that gave me a career and the first producer who “got me” my big break — Bubba, George Schlatter); “Murphy Brown” (I was on two seasons and, when the show ended, I wept more than those who had been on for ten years. I wanted to buy my dressing room so I’d have digs in Burbank and could sleep over whenever I missed Murphy and the gang); “West Wing” (made the world more bearable pretending for four years that Jed Bartlett was our president, and being in that ensemble with those scripts? Thank you, Aaron, for inventing Debbie Fiderer). I miss “Maude” and “Golden Girls” (anything with Bea Arthur); and “The Carol Burnett Show” and “Mary Tyler Moore” (I remember when Carol recognized me in the ladies room at CBS — I was giddy with happiness); “The X Files”; “Everybody Loves Raymond” (I adore Doris Roberts). Dixie Carter and I were in a revue at New York’s Upstairs at the Downstairs in 1966, so when she came on my friend Linda Bloodworth’s show, “Designing Women,” I became a double-big fan of that show.

NYC, 1966, Upstairs at the Downstairs, revue - "Below the Belt"
Lily Tomlin, Richard Blair, Madeline Kahn, Robert Rovin, Dixie Carter

“Six Feet Under” (I miss Frances Conroy and all the dysfunctional Fishers and Rachel Griffiths as Brenda). And I’m thinking, now, of Madeline Kahn and her character Pauline as Cosby’s neighbor. Madeline and Dixie and I were all three in that same revue in 1966. Was there anyone more wonderfully comedic than Madeline? We’d all started out together.

NYC, 1966, Upstairs at the Downstairs, revue - "Below the Belt"
Richard Blair, Dixie Carter, Lily Tomlin

What I’ve been missing, NOW, for just a few months (although it seems like years) is the second season of “Damages.” If it doesn’t come back on soon, I’m going to picket FX.

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