Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!

Before the advent of cable, i Pods, Satellite or the Internet, we got all of our home entertainment from just three television networks.  And each Sunday night, for 23 years, we gathered around the cathode ray hearth to watch an awkward host name Ed Sullivan serve as our entertainment gatekeeper.  Now journalist, entertainment critic, and humor columnist Gerald Nachman, in his book Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!: Ed Sullivan's America, has given us a new look at The Ed Sullivan Show and exposed it to a whole new generation.  My conversation with Gerald Nachman: