Tag Archives: Bob and Ray

“With Increased Leisure Time…”

21 Thursday Jun 2018

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Bob and Ray’s “World’s Oldest Lady Caddy” is one of the first Bob and Ray routines I ever heard.  My son can still break me up laughing by simply saying “With increased leisure time…” It’s kind of the catchall sociological explanation for everything.

Thanks to YouTuber The Classic Archives

Bob and Ray Pull Out The Stops

29 Thursday Dec 2016

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Bob and Ray were generally gentle in their humorous swipes at American culture and media, but probably never was their satire more cutting and Swiftian than in this routine, The Great Lakes Paperclip Company.

Thanks to YouTuber A Blast from the Past, and thanks to Marilyn Vogt-Downey for the suggestion.

Wing Po: Itinerant Philosopher

24 Saturday Dec 2016

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I’ve been looking for this Bob and Ray routine for a long time and finally bought it on Amazon as a single track. It’s one of my favorites. Click on the grey triangle to hear.

The Tender T-bone: Bob and Ray

18 Thursday Feb 2016

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Here’s the inimitable Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding on The David Letterman Show doing their famous sketch about a washed up theater star discussing his latest Broadway flop.

RIP, Bob.

Thanks to YouTuber Don Giller

Mr. Science: Bob & Ray

14 Thursday Jan 2016

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The great Bob & Ray, with one of their classic bits, Mr. Science. It was a merciless parody of a popular educational television show of the 1950s that viewers of a certain age may remember, Watch Mr. Wizard with Don Herbert. Mayhem, as the saying goes, ensues.

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Thanks to YouTuber  danieljbmitchell

Slow . . . Talkers . . . Of . . . America: Bob and Ray

04 Thursday Dec 2014

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Bob (Elliott) and Ray (Goulding) were wizards of understated humor. They expanded into television and theater, but the genesis of their humor was always a media critique of the banality of radio, a medium that they knew better than just about anybody else. The two of them created a whole gallery of beloved characters.  Their performances and scripts still hold up, more than half a century later.