Cavett got Brickman in the door at The Tonight Show. When head writer Walter Kempley quit over a salary dispute, Brickman replaced him. “I realized soon after that nobody wanted the job of the head writer,” Brickman said. “The monologue writers had it great. You could come in almos...
but it's something like, Don says, "I pay you a salary, so you're here. You work for me," and Peggy says, "No, I give you all these good ideas and you take all the credit. I don't get any credit for what I do." He just looks at her and goes, "That's what the money...