On the Real William B. Williams
How delightful it was, upon working on my recent post about lip sync pioneer Dotty Mack, that William B. Williams (1923-86) was a real person. John Candy played a character by that name on SCTV, the sidekick to Joe Flaherty's Sammy Maudlin. I'd always assumed the character was strictly based on Johnny Carson's second banana […]