Paul Lynde Halloween Special

"A sad story about Paul that you don't hear much anymore occurred at Northwestern, sometime around '77 or '78. I was attending Northwestern at that point, and staying in dorms on Orrington, right across from the Burger King (useful, that). Anyway, Paul Lynde, being a treasured alumni, was asked to be the marshall of the homecoming parade.
"I didn't go, but the next day the college paper had his picture on the front page, sitting up in a convertible, wearing a huge fur coat, jewelry dangling round his neck and clustered on his fingers, his hand clasping a drink, beaming at the crowd. That night, one of my roommates came back from Burger King and said they'd just seen Paul Lynde in the queue there, and that he seemed really out of it.
"Well, according to the newspaper reports, what later happened was this: Paul Lynde was in the queue in front of a black guy; and Lynde started telling the guy he should apply for a job there, and started mouthing off on how lazy blacks were, etc. Unfortunately for Paul, this particular black person was a professor of sociology at Northwestern, who went straight home and wrote a strong letter to the press. Paul Lynde went apoplectic with apologies, citing stress, medication and exhaustion (in fact, I seem to remember he blamed anything except for being an alcoholic loudmouth)."
It was also around this time that the comic was ejected from an airliner, drunk and wearing nothing but a blanket. These antics carried over to his work life - in 1979, Lynde was fired from Hollywood Squares for being intoxicated and belligerent on the set once to often.
On several occasions he had to be forcibly removed from the studio because of his outrageous tirades, lashing out angrily at his fellow celebs, audience members and even the contestants.