# Morgan Fairchild Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290/morgan-fairchild Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290/morgan-fairchild.md Podcast: [Ian Talks Comedy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290) Published: 2026-08-22T13:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ian-fermaglich/episodes/Morgan-Fairchild-e3n6bmp Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/21d579e4/podcast/play/123989145/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-9%2Fb5c60230-2c36-7a53-6a5e-118f692692c7.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ian-talks-comedy-140290/episodes/morgan-fairchild Duration seconds: 2754 ## Resource Morgan Fairchild joined me to discuss not being allowed to watch Dobie Gillis; improv and acting training from Larry O'Dwyer; being in the Junior Players; Happy Days; seeing Robin Williams rehearse Mork; getting called to be a recurring cast member on Mork & Mindy; David Letterman; Robert Conrad; doing a Bob Hope special with George Burns, Tony Randall, and Danny Thomas; Milton Berle shows up for shop talk; Jack Lemmon saves her on the dance floor; working with Rodney Dangerfield; hosting An Evening at the Improv and befriending Pee Wee Herman; being in Pee Wee's Big Adventure; Night of 100 Stars; "killing" Lee Strasberg; meeting Rosa Parks and Paul Newman; introducing Billy Crystal to Esther Williams, wife of Fernando Llamas; introducing Pee Wee to Willie Nelson; catching a bullet in her teeth on Circus of the Stars; guest starring on The Bob Newhart Show; co-hosting Battle of the Network Stars with Howard Cosell; Jon Lovitz and the Liar; being booked to host SNL and not knowing or in the country; Lorne wouldn't take her call to apologize; Blondes vs. Brunettes; going on Friends and realizing she knew Matthew Perry as a child; earning an Emmy nom on Murphy Brown; guesting in the lesbian kiss episode of Roseanne; The Simpsons; her podcast with her sister, Two Bitches from Texas; Anson Williams; and love in your 60s and 70s ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ian-talks-comedy-140290/episodes/morgan-fairchild/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290/morgan-fairchild.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.