I remember everybody I knew telling me about that SNL skit the week after I aired but I never saw it until the YouTube era, so it had a little trouble living up to the legend. So I see Paul S and Will Lee behind Bob and Ray, were they in the SNL band at that point, I can't remember. Did they ever sleep? Or maybe that was before Letterman.
― Dalai Mixture (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 February 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
That is from a special centered on Bob & Ray that aired live in SNL's time slot:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078888/
(It's from '79 not '81, despite what the iMdB says.)
Yes, Shaffer and Lee were in the SNL band at that time. Three years before Letterman debuted on late night.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 February 2012 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
Imdb gives writing credit to Woody Allen's producer?
― Dalai Mixture (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 February 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
Jean Doumanian was Lorne Michaels' assoc producer on SNL at that time, then went on to become lead producer on the disastrous fall '80 half-season. That's what she's famous for, to me.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 February 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
is that bob and ray special on one of the snl season boxes?? it seems hella familiar...
― the world is just a racist onion (stevie), Sunday, 19 February 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
I don't believe so
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 February 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypQ2csey3MA
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 June 2013 11:41 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcsIJqhGkB4
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 June 2013 11:54 (ten years ago) link
they play assorted media stars in Cold Turkey, the only film directed by Norman Lear (screens in NYC this week)
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 17:40 (eight years ago) link
revive for Labor Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQna34cbPpg
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 01:38 (eight years ago) link
I have been giggling helplessly at "we don't pry into the personal lives of our employees" for nearly four decades now
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 01:57 (eight years ago) link
Giggling helplessly at Webley Webster's crusty sea captain book review reenactments for two decades.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 03:38 (eight years ago) link
Their character known as "The Worst Person in the World" (a reference to New York magazine theatre critic John Simon
Thumbs up on that one.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 03:52 (eight years ago) link
i wonder what kinda review Simon gave their Broadway show
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 11:07 (eight years ago) link
Just announced: RIP Bob Elliott:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/arts/television/bob-elliott-of-bob-and-ray-comedy-fame-dies-at-92.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link
awww damn
a singular comedic talent
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:53 (eight years ago) link
RIP. co-sign this from up-thread:
Their best routines do a better job of reducing me to totally helpless laughter than anything else, ever.
― soref, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
I also used to listen to them on WOR when I was very very young.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, July 23, 2007
^btw this was a commercial afternoon drive-time show, 3-7 every weekday! Can you imagine? They did it '73-76.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link
Hoped this wasn't the reason for the revive but kinda figured it would be. 92 is a good run. RIP Bob.
― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9fwTv197KE
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link
RIP
― Glissendorfin' Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV2pS1-sNzI
"Apparently you take me for a complete fool.""Yeah, more or less."
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 18:52 (eight years ago) link
“By the time we discovered we were introverts, it was too late to do anything about it."
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 20:18 (eight years ago) link
on their method and influence
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/arts/television/recalling-bob-and-ray-who-paved-the-way-for-todays-deadpan-humor.html
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2016 12:23 (eight years ago) link
my parents were total stans for Bob & Ray! we need Wally Ballou covering the current presidential campaign
― an emotionally withholding exterminator (m coleman), Thursday, 4 February 2016 13:10 (eight years ago) link
def remember them doing this Ballou for Mayor bit on WOR in the '70s
http://www.bobandray.com/albums/wb1.html
i know he ran on the Con-Fusion party line
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link
From early in their career, this one gets me every time:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E5l_vuzn6e4
― JoeStork, Monday, 12 February 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link
hey, they got a nice endorsement from the HQ dude today.
― JoeStork, Friday, 6 April 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link
who?
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 April 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
HQ: the free trivia quiz live tv show app with real cash prizes that is not dystopian at all
Usually about a million people play this stupid trivia game every evening, so I imagine a few people might be turned on to them.
― JoeStork, Friday, 6 April 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link
I was meaning to bring up Just Fancy Dan (my previous bump of this thread) when people were discussing slow, audience-baiting comedy in the Twin Peaks thread.
― JoeStork, Friday, 6 April 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link
oh yeah, i read about that a month ago
xp
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 April 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
JS, I think "Planet of the Baboons" might fit in there sideways
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 April 2018 01:33 (six years ago) link