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“Lenny Bruce joked that Chicago was the only city where death certificates listed a cause of death as “He wouldn’t listen.”
― Kliph Nesteroff, The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy

“Woody Allen made a PBS television special called Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story in 1971, a half-hour satire of Henry Kissinger. The mockumentary was a natural follow-up to Allen’s directorial debut, Take the Money and Run. It opened with a Kissinger-esque character played by Allen, complaining on the phone: “I want you to get an injunction against The Times. Yes, it’s a New York, Jewish, Communist, left-wing, homosexual newspaper. And that’s just the sports section.â€� President Nixon already believed PBS was against him and had sent word through Clay Whitehead of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy that criticism of the administration would result in funding cuts. PBS screened the Woody Allen special for its legal department, which found nothing objectionable. Still, station president Ethan Hitchcock wrote a memo: “Under no account must it be shown.”
― Kliph Nesteroff, The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy