I don’t think comedy writing was his strong suit. At first they were apprehensive because they connected him to “The Twilight Zone,” but within five minutes in my dad’s presence, they felt comfortable. I guess she was out a little longer than he expected so he was up there for quite a while. My mother had to go out for something and he decided to crawl up in the hole and hang upside down like a bat waiting for her. I guess there was a hole in the top of the trailer, which was like a window vent. When my parents first got married they lived in a trailer on campus. My mother used to say “stop laughing, you are only encouraging him.” I had no idea that your father was such a funny guy who would do impressions, jokes and even wear lamp shades to get a laugh. Serling recently talked about her father and her memoir by phone from her home in Cayuga Heights, N.Y.
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