keith. you kept watching not because of me, but the same people who delivered countdown every night were delivering the same people minus one, the most important one. it was still countdown. i went on to host more times than any of us wanted. keith devotedly stayed at his father s bed side for what turned out to be his final days i hosted the show every night but in march of 2010 and it fell to me to announce to you that keith s father passed. keith s time away from the show last year was not a restful 1 and there was no time to rest when he returned. consider what keith invented and taught us to do. hot bed tv. the incomparable maureen doud is a friend of mine and i know if i told her i wanted her to do five poems a week, she would say that is impossible and asked if i know how hard it is to do even