Growing up in Scranton in the 1970s, I would watch "Uncle Ted's Ghoul School" on Friday nights around midnight. Uncle Ted was an older guy with a thick blonde mustache and a thicker pair of black glasses, who donned a blond wig and wore a fez. He would tell corny jokes and do magic tricks. He was usually more popular than the horror movie he showed.

During the height of his popularity in the mid 1970s there was a young, local news reporter from the station that aired Uncle Ted who asked the station manager if they could increase his $160/week salary. The manager told him he could earn an extra $20/week if he wrote jokes for Uncle Ted. That reporter did so for a year before leaving and going on to become Bill O'Reilly.