- Johnny provides captions for photos of politicians. Candice Bergen (memoir "Knock Wood", Hollywood Wives (1985)); clown George Carl performs; Tim Reid (Simon & Simon (1981)).
- The comedy segment is Johnny doing captions for photos of politicians and celebrities. Johnny announces that the band is going to play a salute to J.S. Bach for his 300th birthday, but this is not shown (possibly only on re-broadcasts). George Carl is a vaudeville-style clown who does physical comedy such as getting tangled in the microphone cord, and flipping and rolling his hat. He does not speak, although he makes some sound effects. He gets an excellent reaction, and Johnny happily imitates some of his favorite bits; there is no interview. Candice Bergen and Johnny talk about her father, and she recalls various unusual vaudeville acts, including a man who vomited live frogs, and La Belle Titcomb, who sang arias while riding upside down on horseback. She talks about making "Hollywood Wives", and her marriage to Louis Malle; she had been urged by her father to not marry too young. She also talks about her relationships with her parents, and living in France and how the French don't feel the need to be polite to others; she was initially put off by their rudeness to Americans until she realized they were equally rude to one another. Tim Reid talks about graduating from college and going to work at DuPont as their first black management trainee, noting that everyone was awkwardly overeager to make him welcome. He recalls meeting his former comedy partner Tom Dreesen at the Jaycees in Chicago's south suburbs, and says that after doing some humorous drug prevention shows at schools they decided to try professional show business, but were rejected numerous times by The Tonight Show. He also says he was available to audition for "WKRP in Cincinnati" because he had just been fired from another show, one day before filming began, when the producers decided he wasn't "black enough".—lenab9011
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