My favorite Buck Henry skit was “Talk Back”....as the talk show host desperate to get people to call in...
“... How ‘bout this? “Killing Puppies — It Doesn’t Bother Me” ... That’s me, Frank Noland, and I LIKE dead puppies! Frankly, I’m totally in favor of using federally supported municipal bonds to pay for forced busing of Soviet Communists to come into your homes to kill your puppies! Give me a call, won’t you? The lines are open. Tell ME what you think about it. Dead, mangled puppies ... I like ‘em ...
Okay. While you’re thinking about THOSE topics, here are a half a dozen others which I, Frank Noland, am personally in favor of. “Adolf Hitler — Boy, Do We Need Him Now”! Huh? What about that? Hey, “Incest — I Practice It, Why Don’t You?” Give me a call. Talk to me about it. “No Toilets for the Blind”? Call me! Call me, if you’re watching! And, and ...”
Remember when Belushi bonked him with the kitana in “Samurai Tailor”?
That was a funny skit.
Later Alec Baldwin pulled it off in real life.
I believe he wrote and performed on the National Lampoon radio show and did bits on their albums. Funny man!
He will be missed.