Jack Margolis

Jack Margolis, also credited as Jack S. Margolis, is a comedy writer and author of countercultural works, co-writing the 1969 book A Child's Garden of Grass. He appears multiple times as an interviewee in the Jim Henson produced documentary Youth 68. The editing script identified Margolis and indicates he was to receive an on-screen credit identification when he appeared, but none was included in the final production.^[1]

Margolis teamed with Bob Arbogast earlier in the sixties, both as writers (scripting sketch material for the Jay Ward pilot The Nut House and for Mel Blanc's syndicated radio comedy package Superfun) and performers, working as an on-air Los Angeles radio duo at KMPC and then KLAC. The pair replaced Mort Sahl on TV over KTTV. The same year as Youth 68, Margolis had a small role as a hippie in the head comedy I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (starring Peter Sellers).

Margolis joined the writing staff of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In for the fourth season and adapted A Child's Garden of Grass as a 1971 record album sub-titled "A Pre-Legalization Comedy" (also performing in the ensemble cast). He scripted the 1975 movie Linda Lovelace for President, a softer showcase for porn star Lovelace, and acted sporadically in exploitation films in the 1980s and '90s. As an author, he wrote two tongue-in-cheek books about orgies, The Poetry of Richard Nixon (1974, presenting excerpts from the Watergate tape as blank verse), Impotence Is Always Having to Say You're Sorry and Other Questionable Insights (1975), and returning to a favorite topic, Jack S. Margolis' Complete Book of Recreational Drugs (1978), subtitled "The Guide to All the Drugs that Make You High."

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