I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

Fans of the show eventually took it further planting. S. Early life
Born on the south side of Chicago Illinois Shepherd was raised in Hammond Indiana where he graduated from Hammond High School in 1939.

Jean Parker Shepherd (July 26 1921 – October 16 1999) was an American raconteur radio and TV personality writer and actor who was often referred to by the nickname Shep.