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PJ Media reports the death from cancer of actor Jay Thomas, someone I hadn't heard of because he was a television star ("Cheers", "Murphy Brown") but that doesn't matter: the article includes one of the funniest stories I've heard in quite a while.

Thomas would make an appearance on David Letterman's show every holiday season to tell what was referred to as "the greatest talk show story of all time." Here he is, telling it for the last time before Letterman's retirement: