LOS ANGELES — The godfather of comedy has a few secrets to share: First, he never intended to become the godfather of comedy, never had any idea how to accomplish the feat and, a half-century later, isn’t quite sure how he did it. “Budd Friedman is one of the greatest influences in comedy ever. He changed pop culture forever,” Fallon says in the book co-authored by Friedman and veteran entertainment journalist Tripp Whetsell. To hear Friedman tell it, changing comedy’s direction was about the last thing the former ad man set out to do. “Budd stands as the godfather of comedy.

Source: National Post December 02, 2017 18:11 UTC