My pal Kliph Nesteroff takes us behind the scenes on The Red Buttons Show, which ran on TV from October of 1952 until there wasn't a single comedy writer in the business willing to work with Red Buttons.
One of the many writers who came and went before Mr. Buttons' show went was Arnie Rosen. I worked with Arnie and didn't get along with him any better than he got along with Red. When I knew him, Arnie had massive kidney problems and three times a week, he had to do four-hour stints getting dialysis treatments. Once when he was about to leave the office for one, I overheard someone say to him, "It must be horrible having to do that." He replied, "It's still more fun than working for Red Buttons."