Bill Persky: Still Funny After All These Years, Part 1

Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin

What is it like to create something early in your life and then watch as that creation has a tangible effect on people decades later? Musicians know the feeling. Actors and writers too. It’s a feeling Bill Persky knows well. He and his writing partner Sam Denoff wrote many of the classic episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show, a 1960’s show that is timeless and often held up as TV comedy writing at its best. 60 years later and we are still laughing.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices