not perform. He ended up doing the Saturday night midnight show for three years. We revived his career and it helped promote us. We did Equity Showcase Theater for out of work actors to display their talents. We had famous directors trying out their shows. One time an audition for a two-person show brought in 2000 actors vying for the parts. The line went all around the block. Theodore made 16 appearances on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman in the 1980s; Letterman introduced him as “a noted philosopher, metaphysician, and podiatrist”. In the early 1980s, he was a regular on the Billy Crystal Comedy Hour. He also did voice work, including the voice-over to the American trailer for Lucio Fulci's The House by the Cemetery in 1981. In 1989 he appeared in the Joe Dante comedy film The 'Burbs. Up until the late 1990s, he was a guest actor in several episodes of Joe Frank: Work in Progress radio show on National Public Radio (NPR). Beginning in 1982, Theodore took up residence on Saturday nights for a nearly two-decade run at the 13th Street Repertory Theatre in Greenwich Village. An article on Theodore appeared in RAVE magazine with color photos. Segments from it are in the book Who's Who in Comedy. Just prior to his death from pneumonia, he recorded several monologues for the controversial documentary series, Disinfo Nation. He appeared in Billy Crystal's mockumentary Don't Get Me Started and voiced the character of an ointment expert on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday version of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer in 1995. To My Great Chagrin documentary In early 2001, Theodore requested to meet with film artist Jeff Sumerel about producing a documentary about Theodore. After an in-person meeting, Sumerel received Theodore's approval, and they agreed to proceed with the film. Theodore was cautious. Past attempts at a documentary had been aborted out of his eventual suspicions and distrust of the filmmakers. Sumerel had heard of Theodore's self-sabotage tendencies. In February, preliminary shooting began, with informal interviews with Theodore in his apartment; in April, Theodore became ill with pneumonia and died. Sumerel was still encouraged by Theodore's family and friends to continue with the documentary. As no funding was available, Sumerel continued the project as a labor of love as time and financing allowed. It was his interview with Henry Gibson that began to lead to other notable performers who