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Johnny
by Rob Woodyard
copyright 05-09-2005

Age Rating: 13 to 127

Here's to you, Johnny. I cried when you went off the air in 1992. I remember feeling very sentimental because it was the breaking of a link between my departed sister and me. She died in 1978, only seven, after suffering three years of childhood cancer. You were a constant, in the background, as far back as I can remember. Funny thing is, don't even think I watched you that much way back then - after all, most nights I was in bed before you even appeared. And the early memories are simply of the first minutes, the bright, multi-colored curtain, then boom, bedtime. It was in later years that I began to watch religiously. A lifelong lover of great comedy, I was always on guard for the next great comic who would come out and kill. And weren't there a lot of them. More than anything, you gave us a feeling of familiarity, of comfort. When you went off the air, the tenuous link between 1978 and the present was broken. It's funny how we try to hang on to such invisible threads. And it's also funny how much it hurts sometimes when such seemingly tenuous threads are broken. They must not be so tenuous after all, huh?

Here's to you, Johnny. And most of all, from me, here's to Laurie.

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