Bill Prady Revisits the 1987 Crash
Bill Prady is a veteran writer and co-creator/executive producer of “The Big Bang Theory.” Here he shares a memory from early in his career, when he was a staff writer for the Jim Henson Co. during a moment of global economic instability. On November 6, 1987, after a devastating stock market crash, the Muppets appeared on a special “Town Hall” edition of ABC’s “Nightline” in segments designed to explain the financial system. I wrote those segments and I hadn’t thought about them in years — until John Oliver aired one...