Whoa. Scary. I almost posted those exact words.
On Merv's guest list you could add Orson Bean, Betty White and Jack Klugman's wife (I cannot recall her name), and of course the Gabor sisters.
Bret Sommers was Jack Klugman's wife.
I guess great minds and all that. Good list of Merv guests!! I never could figure out exactly what Orson Bean did other than show up on variety and quiz shows. Same for Betsy Palmer and Phyllis Newman. They just seemed like they were people who went to New York parties and then dropped in on their friends TV shows the next afternoon. When you said Jack Klugman's wife -- could you possibly mean Jack Carter, who had a Japanese wife named Reiko that Merv found knee-slappingly funny?