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Thursday, February 5, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Suddenly, everyone turned and looked there, standing in the doorway, was one wretched, mean-looking ingrown.
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Jokes
instead he left his jokes at the hotel's des and went to patrol the streets of Lenexa.
One week later, Hope's secretary and then Hope himself called and asked Wilson to write some jokes for Hope's 1985 Christmas special on NBC, Wilson said.
There wasn't much time to celebrate. Hope had called at 6 p.m. Friday, and he wanted pikes on 14 a.m. California by 10:30 a.m. Monday.
Wilson said he had written 450 jokes by noon Saturday.
"You can tell it's Christmas in Beverly Hills. All the bag ladies are wearing mink."
Wilson said Hope used five of his jokes in the opening monologue of the show. One of the jokes, he said proudly, got the loudest response.
He was paid $1,000 for the 450 jokes, and he has sold jokes several times since then.
"The money out there is unbelievable." he said.
"Out there" is Hollywood, and living 1,800 miles away in Kansas is a disadvantage. Wilson said.
leave Kansas, which often is the burt of jokes itself, soon. "It's hard to give up a steady income," he said.
However, to keep and make contacts, Wilson and his wife, Trina, make annual trips to Hollywood.
"I saw a woman at Worlds of Fun who was so fat that when she bent over to pick up a blanket, they put a bumper sticker on her."
"Everybody wants fat and ugly jokes," Wilson said. "I've never written a 'beautiful' joke."
One agent told him he loved his jokes but wouldn't buy them. "He wouldn't handle it because I was frightened. But I wouldn't. But Wilson doesn't intend to."
Writers have to know what the audience wants. Derogative jokes are in demand, he said, particularly for Joan River's audiences.
Johnny Carson, who also has bought Wilson's jokes, uses the same procedure.
Hope, though, bought his jokes verbally, Wilson said.
Wilson plans to continue writing jokes, for Hope especially, and to work on TV and movie scripts.
In the meantime, while Wilson waits for word about his scripts, one of which is now in Hollywood, the jokes will keep coming.
"I'm a terrible cook. This morning, Edgar wanted hot cereal so boiled him some corn flakes." Baidum-bump.
Faculty
too busy to be involved with a union.
Please pick the third option.
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Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz, professor of political science, said he thought a faculty union would be powerless. Also, heasid, one group or another must take control of the union.
Roskam said that Griffin's intentions were good, but the idea of a faculty union was bad. Unions have failed to be suited to meet their goals, he said.
"They start out with lofty goals, but after a while they wash out," he said. "They're not really concerned with academic excellence."
Roskam said the quality of high school graduates had declined despite unions for elementary and high school teachers.
"They don't raise standards," he said. "I have never seen any evidence that unions at universities promote excellence."
But Griffin said a KU union affiliated with the KNEA union, which is dominated by elementary and high schools, is in good shape, ensuring the quality of KU's entering students.
"We ought to have a commitment to the quality of their earlier education." he said.
On Campus
- Students Against Multiple Sclerosis is sponsoring a balloon launch at 2 p.m. today on the front lawn of Allen Field House.
■ Lenny Zeskind will give a lecture,
"From Howard Beach to Forsyth
County. Racist Violence in
America, at 12:30 p.m. today in 107
Miller Street. The National
Association and the National Lawyers Guild
are sponsoring the lecture.
■ The film, "The Golito Community: From Unskilled Labor to Artisan Fishermen," and brown bag lunch will be at 11:30 a.m. today in 109 Lippincott Hall.
- The SUA Champions Club will
  Room at the Kansas Union.
- The Student Assistance Center is sponsoring a workshop, "Academic Skill Enhancement," at 3:30 p.m. today in 100 Smith Hall.
The KU chapter of the National Organization for Women will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the Walnut Room at the Kansas Union.
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Eveline Goodman-Thau, Israeli scholar-in-residence, will give a lecture, "Democracy and the Jewish Question," at the Pine Room at the Krasnas Union.
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