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Reading at Beyond Baroque, Santa Monica Review launch, 2019
With Robert Klein and Dick Cavett, Nebraska Comedy Festival, 2017
Page from freelance income records, 1980, showing cartoonists (Bob Thaves, Ben Wicks), radio sketches (Comedy Bank, CBC), and band gigs (Toronto’s Beverly Tavern, Larry’s Hideaway, Star Club)
AJN, Darrell Vickers and Eugene Levy, Banff Television Festival comedy panel, 1995
Darrell Vickers, AJN, Director Joel Zwick, sitcom set, 1994
Authors Three: Cartoonist Bob Staake, AJN, poet John Tottenham. L.A. Festival Of Books, 2012
Cast-signed script, with Mark Hamill, William H. Macy, David Johnson, Carnie Wilson, Dee Dee Rescher, Kimmy Robertson and director Ginny McSwain
With legendary Producer/Director Fred DeCordova, Tonight Show offices, 1990. Fred’s movie posters (he’s holding Bonzo Goes To College) courtesy of Bob Dolan Smith.
Johnny Carson and his writers, Anniversary Party, 1988. (l-r) Bob Keane, Bob Smith, AJN, Mr. C., Patric Verrone, Darrell Vickers, Tony De Sena
Some Carnacs, with Johnny Carson’s edits and numbering, 9/5/1990. Writers: Bob Dolan Smith, Tom Finnigan, Tony De Sena, Darrell Vickers, AJN (I believe the Que Sera Sera was a “Save.”)
Tonight Show “material submission” record, with page count. Part of the letter E. (note: “Evening News 2007!”)
Submissions book, one month in 1981. Gags to cartoonists, inquiries to agents, managers, producers (Perry Rosemond). Material to CBC radio + TV, a training film (Dep’t of Employment & Immigration). Jokes for Alan Thicke, Rodney Dangerfield, an industrial script for CIL Paint. Amused to see an inquiry to Joel Gotler, my wife’s film agent on “White Oleander.”
The author as an untrusting boy, British school photo
Writer’s wife catches him getting news of Nickelodeon pilot sale, lobby of the Chrysler Building, NYC, 2018.
Two premieres, 34 years apart: George Carlin’s first HBO special, 1985, and {LOVE/Logic} at UC Davis, 2019
Writing “Barbie’s Dreamhouse Adventures” on a 52-foot narrowboat on a canal in Wales, 2017.
Darrell expatiates. Johnny Carson Lecture Series, Lincoln, NE, 2009
re: “Rappin’ Rodney.”
with author Jennifer F. Steil (“Exile Music”) outside a pub in London, 2017
Cartoon gag + caption file, early 1980s. Over 900 cards.
revising {LOVE/Logic}, at an AirB&B in Davis, CA, 2019
{LOVE/Logic} in rehearsal, Davis, CA, 2019. (l-r) Rabiya Batth, AJN, director Josy Miller, Rory Gaynor-Flynn, Raegan Price
Milo watches the writing process from on high.
Jimmy Neutron production script signed to son Cody, 2001
Swag! “Ned’s Newt” promo watch, 1999
Tech rehearsal with rear projection, {LOVE/Logic}, 2019. Rory Gaynor-Flynn, Olivia Coca. Moving set: Tristan Atkinson, Riley Morris, Stephanie Neilsen
Darrell Vickers at read-through of musical, MOJAVE! 2016
Profile, Flare Magazine, Aug 1989
writing in a cabin in the Sierra Nevadas nearTahoe, 2018: annual meeting of the Squaw Valley Community Of Writers
Our line from the monologue re: Joe Biden’s 1st Presidential bid makes Newsweek magazine, 1987.
A kitchen full of funny. Chuck Lorre, Pat McCormick, Tony De Sena, your obedient servant. 1992. Photo: Wayne Kline.
17 years in studio lot ID cards: NBC 1987 – Disney ’04
Spouses at a reading, Santa Barbara, 2016: AJN with Janet Fitch, Hiroko with Pico Iyer
in Toronto, 2018
Serenading wife in a swan boat, Valentine’s Day, Echo Park Lake, 2019
Joan Rivers contract page, 1985
Sibling goofiness. With “middle brother” Chris, 2019
126 feet in the air, helming a 52-foot narrowboat across the 1,008-foot long, 6-foot-wide Pontscyllte Aqueduct, Wales, 2017.
The Aston Martin, sigh. Perk of writing one season of a 2007 series (“Peter Pepper’s Pet Spectacular”) that never aired.
Me on a tee. Nobby Clegg shirt, 1979.
Writing at brother Chris’s cottage on Go Home Lake, Northern Ontario, 2018.
Invited by current owner Jim McKenzie to sign the wall of Johnny Carson’s boyhood home. Norfolk, Nebraska, 2017.
With two guest performers and Darrell Vickers on the set of Campus Cops, 1995.
An oft-quoted Johnny line of ours at the Fullerton Museum Carson memorabilia exhibition, 2015
Early acclaim; small praise. 1983
Poe-faced. NYC, 2017.