Up Late with Joe Franklin

After forty-three years as the king of the TV talk-show hosts, Joe Franklin retired from his throne. Through the course of the Joe Franklin Show - the longest-running talk show in television history - he interviewed an astonishing 300,000 or so guests. In this spectacular autobiography, Franklin fondly and comically recalls his most memorable moments with some of the most unique acts and biggest personalities of all time. They include: Barbara Streisand, Eddie Cantor, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Rodney Dangerfield, the New Kids on the Block, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Bing Crosby, Bill Cosby, Cary Grant, Tiny Tim, Howard Stern, Bette Midler, Dan Aykroyd, and many, many others. Filled with never-before-seen photos of many major personalities, hilarious anecdotes about sponsors and backstage mayhem, as well as candid and moving remembrances of days and people past, Up Late with Joe Franklin is a long-awaited and endlessly entertaining stroll down memory lane.