The Crazy Life

The CBS Radio Workshop dedicated to man's imagination, the creator of the mind. Today Henry Morgan and David Carp's story of a man who lives by laughter, told in part by the woman who married him and who shares their crazy life.

Dear Pop, I'm letting this letter in my mind because they won't let me out of them. I suppose you know from all the prayers mom's name that I was going to have a baby. It's a baby girl.

She came just a half hour ago. We're calling her Amanda. I think she looks beautiful. I'm so glad for you that it was a girl. Yes, I wanted a girl. Girl's a nicer than boys.

Easy to train. You know the old saying, a son until he gets a wife. A daughter's a daughter the rest of her life. That was Mrs. Barnawitt. She has a bed next to mine. She had a boy yesterday, who's a third.

I may as well tell you, I'm in a ward at the hospital. It isn't so bad, really, because it's that one poor girl's baby died and she cries all the time. I wish I weren't here, but we can't help that Henny hasn't done well the past few years.

I know he's tried, but... What I mean, I'm not an award because I want to be. Why don't you try to sleep, dear? I can't. Did you know it was snowing? No, I didn't. Beautiful.

It's snowing outside now. It must be beautiful. Henny hasn't seen the baby yet. I wonder if you really wanted a girl the way I do. Mr. Carter, how did you get here? I had to kill three nurses and tie up a doctor.