Somebody asked me about the litany of things I say at the end of the show.
For the record, here’s what I say, and where I got it from:
“It’s nice to be important, but it’s a whole lot more important to be nice.[1] You can lead a horse to water, but nothing smells worse than a wet horse.[2] A bird in the hand makes one hell of a mess.[3] No matter where you go, there you’ll be.[4] Don’t sweat the petty things, and don’t pet the sweaty things.[5]”
- Zeke Jackson, WARO/WWCS radio, Canonsburg
- Unknown, but Google suggests I heard it on “Hee Haw” (!!!)
- Unknown
- Larry Richert, KDKA radio, who apparently got it from “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!”
- Tom Snyder, “The Late, Late Show”
The music I play is “Bring Me Sunshine,” sung by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, two British comedians who used it for many years to close out their TV shows.
(And, also for the record, the theme at the beginning of the show is called “Studio 69” by Alan Hawkshaw, and was the theme song of Irish comedian Dave Allen.)