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On their last shows together, Dody twitched and squirmed more nervously than ever, bridled when Paar asked her to tell a story she insisted wasn't very funny (It wasn't.) Paar displayed tightly controlled correctness when Dody announced that she was leaving "on vacation." As he signed off for the week, he smiled: "Have a good vacation, Dody. Good night, Dody." Said Dody next day: "I think he wanted to appear that we were very friendly." But off the air Jack said that he felt miserable about the whole thing. Added he: "My mistake was to let her rise. The only thing she cared about was fan mail and publicity—not about the show. Friday may well have been her last time on the show. I'm not a fraud. I won't say nicely and politely that yes, she will come back from time to time. What does she want? Her own show and more money. Well, she had her own show right on our show. This is the greatest overbuilding job I've ever done."