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Thus indelible: Ernie Kovacs as the poet ‘Percy Dovetonsils.’ Milton Berle in outlandish drag on The Ed Sullivan Show. Liberace. Paul Lynde camping away nonstop on Hollywood Squares. Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle. I remember watching the Merv Griffin Show every afternoon when I came home from school and one day he introduced a young comedienne who was making her television debut. Her name was Lily Tomlin. Perched on a stool mid-stage, Tomlin proceeded to deliver a deadpan monologue while also preparing — slowly, deliberately, voluptuously — to smoke a huge and unbelievably suggestive-looking cigar. She went through the whole Cigar Aficionado ritual: sucking on the cigar on both ends, pinching the leaves at the tip, etc. Then, without a single comment about it or what she was doing, she smoked it! It was so wildly transgressive at the time — so disgusting, unfeminine, and dizzyingly hot — I almost wet my pants. 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