File under “Quite Odd”: Comedian—and perennial presidential candidate—Pat Paulsen appears in black face, telling ethnically insensitive jokes in a 1974 appearance on The Merv Griffin Show that never aired… for reasons that should be rather obvious.

Griffin and guest actor Doug McClure (who seems a bit drunk) actually walk off the stage in nervous embarrassment, but upon his return at the end, Merv fires off a great improv’d line.