It's Saturday Night.....Night....night...night
Everyone who grew up near Pittsburgh in the '60s or '70s will remember Saturday nights spent munching pizza and sipping POP while watching Chiller Theater. It was low budget, campy, and the best! Host Chilly Billy Cardille (pronounced car-dilly) is still popular and chilly after all these years. He's also immortalized in his role as the TV reporter in "Night of the Living Dead," which was filmed entirely in Western Pennsylvania.
Trivia: I met Mr. Cardille in New Castle, Pa., circa 1979 at a charity haunted house in Cascade Park.
I remember Johnny Carson reading a list of jokes that Chilly Billy had sent into the Tonight Show. The humor didn't go over well with that studio audience. Maybe, it Johnny's delivery that didn't work. I don't think it was "horror host humor," just some regular jokes.
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