Soupy Sales, the best children’s show host ever, who with Frank Nastasi, who played all the other characters, provided a tv half hour of ad lib mayhem each day. Here’s part of an episode from 1965.
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This classic tv quiz show featured one of the Marx Brothers as a guest.
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The two funniest late night talk show guests on television visit Jimmy Fallon to offer some soothing compliments.
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The Great Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose outwit Boris and Natasha. An oasis of comedy in 1960s television cartoons.
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This was really fun–comedian Art Carney guested on the Johnny Carson show and Carney, Carson and Sid Caesar ended up playing “My Blue Heaven” as a jazz trio, with Carney on piano, Carson on drums and Caesar on sax.
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Bob Hope, Woody Allen, Gregory Peck and Dick Cavett wonder if you’re talking to me.
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Jackie Gleason as Ralph Cramden, Art Carney as Ed Norton, and Audrey Meadows as amazed wife Alice, decide to liven up their workaday Brooklyn lives. Do the Hucklebuck!
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One more sketch from pre-Python days from At Last The 1948 Show, which was later revived for the Pythons. I think I like this original version best.
For some reason, the punch line is missing at the end. “And you try telling the young folk that today… and they won’t believe you”
Tim Brooke Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman.
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The pre-Python Pythons in another classic sketch from the At Last The 1948 Show television program.
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John Cleese, Marty Feldman from pre-Monty Python days on a tv program called At Last The 1948 Show. Feldman was hired as a writer as he was not yet a performer, but Cleese thought that Feldman would be great in sketches. And he was.
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Ed Sullivan tries to quiet the screaming teens as the Rolling Stones sing “Around and Around.”
Mick Jagger is just 21 years old here.
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Given that Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa is now the Republican candidate for New York State governor, this Chris Elliott sketch from 1990 is funnier than ever.
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Charles Grodin died last month. His mock feud segments with Johnny Carson were some of my favorite bits of impromptu comedy. Here’s a follow up visit by Grodin to Johnny that I posted a few years ago.
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Welcome actors June Foray and Bill Scott to the virtual studio, as they do the voices for Rocky The Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle Moose, among other characters from the classic Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon television series of the early 1960s.
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As a self-identified Person of Scalp, I empathize.
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Chuck McCann, from his 1960s afternoon local television show, with one of his many characters.
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Here in NYC we were blessed in the 1960s with at least three incredibly talented daytime television hosts. They masqueraded as children’s program hosts, but they produced thousands of hours of hilarious comedy with no budget to speak of, and whose studio audience was usually only an appreciative camera crew. There was Soupy Sales, Sandy Becker, and perhaps the most talented of them, Chuck McCann. Here’s Chuck as the failed escape artist, The Great Bombo. I believe his sidekick here, Sid Slick, is played by Jim MacGeorge.
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David Stone is consistently entertaining no matter what he does. I really enjoyed this card to impossible place routine.
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Finally! I’ve been looking for this clip for years. Phil Hartman in one of my favorite fake advertisement parodies from Saturday Night Live, the commercial for the new breakfast cereal, Colon Blow.
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Diana Rigg died this week. A fine actress, the clip above shows her in a few of her famous roles.
But my favorite thing that Diana Rigg ever did as an artist was to write a book called No Turn Unstoned: The Worst Ever Theatrical Reviews. Stung by unkind reviews that she had received over the years, to cheer herself up, Rigg compiled a book of horrendous reviews that other celebrated actors had received over the years. If you can get a hold of a copy, it’s a fun read.
Thank you, Mrs. Peel.
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Monday morning, an amazing clip, a beautiful video of Bob Dylan on the Johnny Cash television show singing “I Threw It All Away” from the album Nashville Skyline.
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