Q:  Herman?

A:  Hello.

Q:  Hi.  I just would like to start off by saying that your "Two Guys in a Buffet Line" skit, is one of the all-time greats from WPSA.  Every time that I walk to "Prop Comedy 204", I see it framed on the wall.

A:  Yes, yes, those were heady times.  You know, majoring in Restaurant Skits, we really wanted to break the mold during that period, and well, buffets were relatively new to the lexicon of public eating, and well, Billy (McIntosh, his writing partner) and I really knocked that one out of the park.

Q:  You included that skit in your Laugh-In submission pack, what happened?

A:  Dick Martin is a fucking asshole!  Sorry.  I meant Dick Rowan.  Yeah, well, what happened was, you see, they informed my manager (Perry Mankiwitz) at the get-go that it was going to be a 'Restaurant Skit' show.  So, I thought that, well, I guess I'm in.  But it turns out, those fucking buffoons, pardon my Portugese, were more interested in telling 2nd grade jokes through flowery hippie windows. 

Q:  Very nice use of insults.

A:  Thank you. 

Q:  You spent a great deal of time in Chicago in the early 1970s.

A:  Yes, those were heady days.

Q:  Heady days again?

A:  Well, this time I was actually doing drugs.

Q:  Okay.  Tell us about working with Belushi.

A:  Well, I never thought him and that Great Dane would ever be able to finish that cop movie-

Q:  John Belushi.

A:  Oh.  He was alright.  An angry man as I recall.  And a very profuse sweater.  There's always one of those in every group of people who are trying to be funny.  In my graduating class it was Lippy Martinez.

Q:  Wasn't it unfortunate that your most marketable time as a comedy writer happened to fall in the early 1970s, the time of the "(Insert Star's Name Here) Variety Show".

A:  Yes.  I tried to adapt though.  In '71 I worked for 'The Johnny Unitas Laff-and-Laff', it was an alright time, but correct me if I'm wrong here...if you're gonna do a Johnny Unitas show, he needs to have a flat-top.  From there it was two long summers on the staff of "Frankie Valli and Robert Plant Go Wacky!".  We got to do some really ground-breaking stuff there, I thought.  It was that whole "surfing clashing against drug-fueled belief in the occult" theme that really made the show work I think.

Q: From there you went to work on "Wilt Chamberlain Presents" in 1974.

A:  Ah yes, "WCP", I'll never forget it.  Wilt was great to work with.  He really took care of his staff and crew.  Sloppy seconds all around.  That's where I met my wife, Angela.

Q:  You had some trouble with the censors on that show...

A:  I did.  They were doing a restaurant skit that Billy and I wrote, never made it to air.  The premise was that a Giant Rabbit was dumping in all of the food at Taco Bell, but I think it was the underlying layer of the whole situation being a parable about OPEC.  ABC didn't like all of the OPEC stuff we did.

Q:  So you're out of comedy writing now, trying to get into real estate.  How is that?

A:  Every day is a fight to keep the gun out of my mouth.

Q:  Herman, as always, it's been a pleasure.

A:  Thank you very much, and I must tell you, I'm really looking forward to seeing what the new generation of Winches have in store for us.  Very exciting, and thanks for having me.