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Interesting fact: he left the show after a year and a half in June 1942 and was replaced by Erich Von Stroheim. I wonder if they changed the joke?

I WISH! (I'm looking at YOU The Late Show!)

Josephine Hull & Jean Adair were given a pass to recreate their roles on film (they shot right around the attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941) but Karloff was not, as his comic role was such an audience pleaser that producers didn't want to lose him for the time he would have needed.