Washington, D.C.: Did your father ever actually say, "A Festivus for the rest of us" or is that just on the show?
Dan O'Keefe: Yes he did. It referred to the death of my grandmother, Jeanette Marie O'Connor O'Keefe, in 1976. The next year he opened the ceremonies by saying "This is a Festivus for the rest of us," meaning the living, and not the faithful departed.