October 19, 2016: Desi Arnaz believed that one reason for “I Love Lucy”’s galactic success was that it didn’t insult any member of its audience: “The only ones close to an ethnic joke were the ones about Ricky’s accent, and of course those were in the category of making fun of yourself, which is fine,” he wrote in his incomparably titled 1976 memoir, A Book. Me, I think Arnaz was a full fifty percent of the reason “I Love Lucy” was such a smash, and—hey, would you look at that?—I make my case today in the latest piece for my Awl column, Best Forgotten.