Chet Waterhouse

Well, you knew very well.

You've been Jeff Cesario has been around this town doing comedy for many, many years.

Oh, Larry Sanders show.

That's right.

Just we were there for all of it.

Yeah.

Any stories come to mind?

Well, first of all, Judd and I started by writing for Gary Shanley when he would host award shows.

So as you know from having been through some Academy Awards show rooms now and been in your own rooms and whatnot –

Paul comes over a writer's room about seven weeks into a project like that where everybody's just out of gas.

And Judd was great because he could bust that.

Judd was like a great concept guy.

He kept coming up with concepts and then he'd move and he had all that energy because he was so young.

So 3 a.m., you're sitting in a room with a bunch of cynical writers and nothing's happening.

And Judd would just jump up and go, come on.

Two guys in a phone booth.

One of them is trying to eat a Chinese chicken salad.

Yeah.

And you go, what?

And then like, you know, three weeks later, there's the Chinese chicken salad gag on the Grammys.