Morgan Freeman is Easy Reader

We won't begrudge Morgan Freeman what jobs an actor must needs to take en route to fame and Fortuna, but couldn't he have put up a fight with the writers over the Amos-n-Andyish line, "When I itches, I scratches/ And when I'm bored, I read matches .." (Exaggerated cough suggesting feigned detchment) We shall overcome, and all that. (Averted Gaze) Before he was an Oscar-winning A-Lister, Morgan Freeman was "Easy Reader" on The Electric Company. "Easy ... they named you right":