Chet Waterhouse
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And then comedy becomes your escape pod.
And he was able to leave home and start this career.
He never had kids.
He had girlfriends and things.
But did he marry?
He was engaged at one point to Linda Doucette.
And they lived together for a while.
And that's part of the documentary is that.
Oh, she's working on the show, right?
That she was on the show.
She played Hank Kingsley's assistant.
And it was really funny and very nice to me.
When I first met Gary, I was in my early 20s.
I would hang out with him almost like a surrogate son.
I always felt like I was the experimental son.
And I'd have dinner with them and just spend a ton of time with them.
And then at some point they broke up and Gary fired her from the show, which was totally wrong.
You're just not allowed to do that.
If you're dating someone on the show, you're not allowed to dump them from the show when you break up.
So she sued him for wrongful termination.