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Article: Pat Sajak succeeds as a likable clone of Johnny Carson
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 11, 1989
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One of the frequent old saws heard from programming executives
around the entertainment business is: "Hey, we're not performing
brain surgery." Thank heaven for small blessings.
And in keeping with that adage, "The Pat Sajak Show," airing
from 10:30 p.m. to midnight Monday through Friday, does not attempt
brain surgery. But on Monday's premiere of the CBS talk show,
viewers were treated to a tape of Sajak's network-required physical
exam - chest X-ray and all.
This wasn't brain surgery. It was a cloning.
We've come along way (but in which direction?) since the days of
Jack Paar's repartee with Oscar Levant, Bobby Kennedy and Fidel
Castro - people who had something to say; people who ...