A Fake Prince, a Game Show Contestant and the Devil

How an intelligence officer's trivia show winnings were a gift to us all

February 9, 1961 - Burbank, California

There’s a saying. It goes something like, “Comedy lives next door to horror.”

The devilish diary that Bill had in his custody couldn’t be in starker contrast to his current surroundings, and that’s perhaps where that saying, or my butchering of it, came from.

So, sure, comedy lives next door to horror, but sometimes t…