 At a gala benefit for the company at Symphony Space in 1987, Reed, dressed as the Lord Chancellor from "Iolanthe", proposed marriage, on stage, to celebrity guest Dr. Ruth Westheimer.Later guest stars came mostly from a television background.Some of those, like Steve Allen in 1995, were criticized for their lack of experience in the genre, while others, like Hal Linden in 2008, fared well.