Table of Contents

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?

Index

About the Author

Madelyn Pugh Davis and her writing partner, Bob Carroll Jr, have been in the entertainment business for more than 50 years. Together they are 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 honor Davis with a Lifetime Achievement in Television Writing.