text:  was over-prepare. You wanted a little bit of edge. You wanted a little scariness so that you were on edge and that you didn't do what he did last night, just start going off on different ways with the statistics, as you said. That was Jackie Gleason's thing. Jackie Gleason would memorize the script, but he would never rehearse because he wanted the first take to be the one. And they didn't even do takes back then. He was live television, but it was unrehearsed live television.