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A time warp from 1970, this clip has David Frost interviewing Geraldine Jones, the feminine alter ego of comedian Flip Wilson. Wilson was, for a while, the biggest thing in American TV, and the pressure seemed to be a little more than he could bear. The Geraldine phrase, “What you see is what you get,” is said to have been responsible for the computer term “WYSIWYG.”

Wilson with Ed Sullivan, also 1970:

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