The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Series)
I Was a Teenage Head Writer (1963)
Morey Amsterdam: Buddy Sorrell
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Quotes
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[first lines]
Rob Petrie : But all we need is just one joke to finish the show. Come up with something, Buddy, and you can go home to your wife.
Buddy Sorrell : Go home to my wife? What kind of reward is that?
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Rob Petrie : Look, Mel, as the head writer, I say it's a good script, and I'm sure Alan would agree with me, too.
Mel Cooley : I'm sorry, there's no use talking...
Rob Petrie : [interrupting] Mel, I could go over your head.
Buddy Sorrell : Watch it, Rob. It's slippery up there.
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Rob Petrie : I usually don't say this, but I think that sketch is one of the funniest we've written in months.
Mel Cooley : Well, I'm sorry. It just didn't make me laugh.
Buddy Sorrell : That PROVES it's funny.
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[Rob pulls out Buddy and Sally's submitted script]
Sally Rogers : Did Alan crumple this?
Buddy Sorrell : [examining the paper] Yup, that's Alan's crumple.
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Buddy Sorrell : Hey, hi ya, Mel. Hey, you've been worried about gettin' bald. I got good news for ya. You are NOT losing your hair.
Mel Cooley : I'm not?
Buddy Sorrell : [picking at his jacket] No, I just found it. Look, there's some here and here and...
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Sally Rogers : You don't wanna open a comedy show with jokes?
Rob Petrie : N-n-no.
Buddy Sorrell : Maybe we should open it with the Budapest String Quartet.
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Buddy Sorrell : He's the head writer. He's got to have a lot of room for his head.
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Buddy Sorrell : [to Mel, from whom he's extorting lunch service] And tomorrow: cold vichyssoise, chicken a la king, and any fruit that's not in season.