When Mike Reiss was a kid growing up in Bristol, he loved "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and dreamed of being one of the comedy writers as portrayed in the '60s TV series. "I wanted to be Buddy Sorrell, the character played by Morey Amsterdam, 'the human joke machine'." Reiss' dream came true. Big time....
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM on June 7, 2018