request to bring an ice machine to a hotel. we had other better ones. all right. larry: okay. there s one i like the one where you wanted to check in. i like the one you wanted to check in larry: the new letters from a nut. hold it up, larry. that s how we get sales. larry: okay. thank you, jer. one more. i like this one that i wrote to i was trying to get a sign made. i m opening a business next to a cuckoo-roo restaurant. my business is called i am the walrus. i need one big sign that i ll put next to them that says i am the walrus coo coo carew. you know coo coo carew chicken and elroy s? larry: of course. hair, you re a genius. that is allfully nice of you. larry: thank you for introducing him to the world. all you people on the internet, here he is. finally the mystery is over. larry: the name is barry marter, the book is all new letters from a nut by ted l. nancy. this is ted nancy. jerry stays with us. we ll be right back. socket.
larry: that s correct. you re going to put the rumors to rest tonight about who wrote letters from a nut. it was identified as ted l. nancy, which was a nom de plume. it was a nom de plume. now, this idea of this character started 15 years ago. and when the idea arose, we decided to keep it a secret, who was writing these letters. larry: and tonight we ll meet tonight you ll meet the person who has conceived of the entire character. and it was really thought of we did it as a kind of a gag. just for ourselves to have fun. and the books took off. and there s been, i think, four or five of them now. they ve been best sellers. and it was never intended to be that. larry: the trouble with the book is, it s called trouble, you can t read it without breaking up. we ll read some letter later. he writes crazy letters to people. crazy letters. and they answer him. larry: he writes to hotels, businesses, corporations.
a new addition of letters from a nut. but first, another first. one of the things that s great about being me larry: among many. among many. is i get to present people that i love that have great talents and great things. and i use you to do this. larry: i m your prop. yes. i wouldn t say prop, i would say you re my you re my larry: i m your idol. you re my idol, if that helps you. tonight is three people who i m really here to talk about. because i don t talk about myself. larry: i know. and this for the first time, my wife had a huge hit book two years ago. larry: unbelievable. called deceptively delicious. i thought of the title. but she did everything else. it was a giant hit. she s finally come out with a sequel. i know your wife loves this book. larry: loved it. i know you drove all around san francisco larry: i got the last cope copy they had. i got the first copy of the sequel which has never been seen anywhere before this appearance
because of the internet, and you know what that s all about, it was time to reveal the mystery. it s his fifth book coming out. ladies and gentlemen, the real author of letters from a nut, is barry p. marter, sitting next to me, who has been a colleague of mine for over 25 years. he s a comedian, a comedy writer. larry: how have you lived, barry, in anonymity through all of this with famous books? you know you did them. well, i don t know how to answer that. let s move on to our next guest. larry: barry, we ll have you back soon. probably december 17th you ll be back. no, i just you know, i was just writing them and it just got out of hand. larry: you did it originally as a lark? i did them i started about actually 16 years ago in 94. a frito bag, right? eating a bag of fritos. the actual way it happened is i was sitting in the bedroom,
all these years. i am putting one down. and it s got a snooze. can we get a shot of that? it s got a snooze. because when you get older, that s what counts. larry: this clock shall be a permanent part of larry king live. it shall be embellished in our hearts. at the smithsonian. larry: we ll go to the smithsonian. and what prompted you to take it the first time? it s annoying that a big-time, big-shot guy like you has a piece of eye-sore like that. it offended me. larry: all right. by the way, that s an inexpensive item. larry: that s correct. you re going to put the rumors to rest tonight about who wrote letters from a nut. it was identified as ted l. nancy, which was a nom de plume. it was a nom de plume.