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A comedy team starring a DuPont marketing manager and an insurance salesman? It will never work.

And it didn't work -- not for long, anyway -- but not because of the jobs Tim Reid and Tom Dreesen held when they met at a Junior Chamber of Commerce gathering near Chicago. Reid, who eventually became famous as disc jockey Venus Flytrap in "WKRP in Cincinnati," was an African-American from Norfolk, Virginia; Dreesen, who would eventually become a noted standup comedian and Frank Sinatra's opening act, was a working-class white kid from the south Chicago suburbs.

Together, they were Tim & Tom, the first interracial comedy team -- "and the last," Dreesen likes to joke. Read full article »

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