![]() “So I wrote some jokes, and gave them to my brother and asked him if he’d show them to Bob.” “It didn’t seem to me to be hard to write jokes, which is all Bob Hope really wanted,” Schwartz says. The year was 1938, and Schwartz, now 21, went to live with his older brother, Al, a staff writer on Bob Hope’s radio show. I didn’t get into medical school.”īlown off-course, Schwartz left his hometown of Passaic, New Jersey, for Los Angeles. As I pointed out, ‘This is a democracy.’ I didn’t believe it, but they were right. I thought if I worked hard enough and got good grades, I could get in. “They suggested that I change my name or religion to get in. Because of quotas on the number of Jewish students admitted to the medical school to which he applied, he was put on a waiting list. “I had no interest in writing or comedy except that I could do it,” says the affable 92-year-old, seated in the office of his Beverly Hills home, surrounded by mementos of a 70-year career as a writer and producer on shows such as Gilligan‘s Island and The Brady Bunch.Įven though he earned money as a young man writing jokes for amateur comedy contests, Schwartz, who later earned a master’s degree in biology, was focused on medical school. He wanted to pursue a career in medicine - specifically to do research in endocrinology. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Gilligan and the Skipper, two of his iconic TV creations, Sherwood Schwartz had always thought he knew in which direction the winds would take him. ![]()
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