also Harry Einstein (Albert Brooks' dad) dying at that roast, oy
i mean first he KILLED, then he died.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 February 2016 20:54 (eight years ago) link
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/files/1958_1124_cover.jpg
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 February 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link
happy 93rd birthday to Larry "Agarn" Storch!đź—»
đź—»
― Thank You For Cosmic Jive Talkin' (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 01:53 (eight years ago) link
was that an F Troop catchphrase? no idea
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 14:43 (eight years ago) link
Jean Carroll, one of the first women who did standup monologues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJv0mZG8Wws
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 14:59 (eight years ago) link
Book is great, btw. Thanks for the rec.
― The Kidd With The Erasable Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:25 (eight years ago) link
I'm really glad some of the routines described haven't been preserved for posterity, like young Art Carney's impression of FDR taking a crap.
Also I guess Milton Berle really did earn all that hatred in the profession. (Fred Allen on a proposed Berle statue: "It'll be the first statue that people shit on.")
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
Definitely want to read this book. Does it have much on '30s/'40s radio comics? I have a big soft spot for Burns/Allen, Fibber McGee, Eve Arden, Jack Benny etc.
― A nationally known air show announcer/personality (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
There's a chapter on each phase of comedy from 1900 on, pretty much, including one on radio. I didn't realize how much Jack Benny stole from other comics (like Ben Bernie) to start his career; everybody stole, apparently.
He has spave mostly for the biggies; in radio it's mostly Benny, Eddie Cantor, Fred Allen, a little George & Gracie and Bob Hope, and the oft forgotten Henry Morgan (who was still doing TV panel shows when I weas a kid). And then he describes the brief career of a piker who got lucky (Joe Penner, who rode to 3 years of fame on "Wanna buy a duck?").
Also, Burns & Benny almost got convicted of jewel smuggling at the peak of their stardom!
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:08 (eight years ago) link
*He has space
Cool. Will read.
― A nationally known air show announcer/personality (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link
I love the part about Buster Keaton's first big success coming as a child performer in a vaudeville act in which his dad beat the shit out of him on stage every night. The routine was so convincing that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children tried to shut down the show.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
well that i knew bcz it's been in all the Keaton bios
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link
i'm curious to discover what the people i know who are expert in 1900-1965 comedy think of the book, ie how much they found new to them. I mean, they know damn near everything.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 21:28 (eight years ago) link
Right.
― The Kidd With The Erasable Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:45 (eight years ago) link
the story of the comedy duo of (Fred) Willard & Grecco in the '60s is really incredible.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 March 2016 04:53 (eight years ago) link
holy crow, some of this crash is on YT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bs4bbNHmO0
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link
Looking forward to watching
― SIGSALY Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 March 2016 00:13 (eight years ago) link
watch the turkey dinner sketch on the Jerry thread first
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 March 2016 00:38 (eight years ago) link
Joe Morton is starring in a sort-of-one-man play about Dick Gregory off-Broadway... I was superficially not interested given the format, but the reviews have been pretty great.
http://deadline.com/2016/05/turn-me-loose-joe-morton-scandal-review-1201761103/
http://www.turnmelooseplay.com/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 May 2016 19:22 (eight years ago) link
happy birthday Gracie Allen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jUplYQo9Xg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmKRoNPJOFU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjTDZrn_bLQ
http://images.popmatters.com/misc_art/g/gracie-allen-president-splsh650.jpg
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
live event of the winter in NYC
http://metropolitanroom.com/event.cfm?id=250956&cart
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 15:59 (seven years ago) link
Storch made it to 94 yesterday, but i was unable to attend! take a listen (this record is 60yo):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XV5HTWO-gM
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 January 2017 19:13 (seven years ago) link
His career reached its peak of absurdity in 1974 when he was called upon to accept the National Book Award on behalf of the reclusive author Thomas Pynchon for the novel “Gravity’s Rainbow.”
Mr. Corey gave a wandering acceptance speech on behalf of Pynchon, offering thanks to Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger — whom Mr. Corey called the “acting president of the United States” — and author Truman Capote.
Since Pynchon had never made a public appearance, many in the audience assumed the prattling Mr. Corey to be the mysterious author. (Mr. Corey did not, in fact, know Pynchon, but they had mutual friends who arranged the comedian’s book award talk.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/irwin-corey-comic-who-styled-himself-the-worlds-foremost-authority-dies-at-102/2017/02/07/b39560ae-ed36-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link
aw RIP
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 17:20 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHlLmYVCzKY
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
good night, funny man
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/don-rickles-dead-legendary-comic-was-90-720153
I think we're down to Jerry Lewis, Larry Storch and Shecky Greene.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 April 2017 18:14 (seven years ago) link
i hate the 21st century.
i tried to revive my beloved old jews thread, but what's the point anyway. everything sucks.
i think i'll just retreat into the past until i croak.
― scott seward, Thursday, 6 April 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
awww scott
Shelley Berman is still upright too
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 April 2017 18:20 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_87ZoEaUs4
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 April 2017 18:26 (seven years ago) link
Dont forget Rickles best friend Bob Newhart is also still kicking
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 April 2017 18:28 (seven years ago) link
And best pals Brooks & Reiner.
― Break the meat into the pineapples and pat them (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 April 2017 18:36 (seven years ago) link
yeah, I was thinking Jewish comics who first made their name in clubs.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 April 2017 18:39 (seven years ago) link
(pref Catskills; Mel performed there but didn't become a star there a la Jerry)
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 April 2017 18:40 (seven years ago) link
posting this blind just cuz...
Kliph Nesteroff‏ @ClassicShowbizthe greatest thing Don Rickles ever did. the greatest thing Don Adams ever did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kEQ3ndLhq8
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 April 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/f1/6a/70/f16a70bc04413979f12d6aef50d3fa2e.jpg
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 April 2017 19:00 (seven years ago) link
never seen that photo of boyd rice and genesis p-orridge before
― example (crĂĽt), Thursday, 6 April 2017 19:13 (seven years ago) link
lol
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 April 2017 19:15 (seven years ago) link
Last month it was announced that Don Rickles had teamed up with AARP for their first TV project, Dinner with Don. The 10-episode series features Rickles “dining with friends and fellow comedians at some of his favorite LA-area restaurants.” A premiere date for the series hasn’t been announced yet, but AARP released a sneak peek from the series, which was completed prior to Rickles’ death.
clip:
http://splitsider.com/2017/04/watch-a-clip-from-dinner-with-don-featuring-paul-rudd-amy-poehler-zach-galifianakis-and-more/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 April 2017 15:04 (seven years ago) link
In tribute to the 100th anniversary of Hans Conried's birth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8mBePCovlU
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 April 2017 14:15 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkomzcVzIIU
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 April 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
Saw a few minutes of some dreary Borgnine B-movie yesterday called The Rabbit Trap, and watched Rickles steal a scene just by mugging, miming eating and swigging a beer during a backyard BBQ interlude.
― stet, where is thy Zing? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 April 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
(Shawn) Levy’s posted a note on Facebook, which Ray Pride passes along at Movie City News: “Jerry and I met twice while I was working on the book and spoke/wrote to each other perhaps a dozen times. Like many of his relationships with the press and his partners/subordinates, it ended badly, with Jerry hollering profanities at me in the cabin of his yacht in San Diego. I wrote about it in the epilogue to my book, and over the years I’ve had the scene quoted back to me by Steve Martin, Harry Shearer, Paul Provenza, and Penn Jillette. Tom Hanks once told me that he had a dinner with Paul Reiser and Martin Short at which Short spent the night imitating Jerry throwing me off the boat. Jerry was a lot of things: father, husband, chum, businessman, philanthropist, artist, innovator, clown, tyrant.”
Levy's bio of Lewis is def the one to read.
http://moviecitynews.com/quotes/biographer-shawn-levy-on-jerry-lewis-on-facebook/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 August 2017 15:59 (seven years ago) link
Dick & Jerry
http://www.openculture.com/2017/08/the-comedic-legacies-of-dick-gregory-and-jerry-lewis-rip-a-study-in-contrasts.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
RIP Marty Allen, who I would have a tough time explaining to anyone under 50
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/marty-allen-dead-zany-comedian-was-95-925520
https://www.boomermagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Marty_Allen-_Rossi-with-the-Beatles-_1964_courtesy-Marty-Allen.jpg
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
RIP Chuck McCann
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/chuck-mccann-new-york-comic-dead-83-article-1.3922794
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:08 (six years ago) link
RIP Will Jordan, who did his Ed Sullivan impression everywhere from Bye Bye Birdie on Broadway to a Billy Joel video
https://www.newsweek.com/will-jordan-dead-ed-sullivan-impression-billy-joel-1110525
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 September 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
As this thread could easily double as one for Gilbert Gottfried's podcast, I'll link this 2016 appearance from a then-80-year-old Jordan:
https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/will-jordan/
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Friday, 7 September 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
*89-year-old
I saw Jordan talk/perform briefly in a comedy club six (?) years ago for a Larry Storch birthday tribute. (Jake LaMotta and Marni Nixon, who have also shuffled off since, were also there.)
My comedian friend who is quoted in the Newsweek obit also knows Gilbert in the Friars Club.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
happy 96th (tomorrow) to Mr Storch
https://www.facebook.com/andrewporetz/videos/10155713015951249/
https://travsd.wordpress.com/2018/01/08/95-years-of-larry-storch-only-2-of-agarn/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 January 2019 21:11 (five years ago) link
RIP Kaye Ballard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12uxvrPAg-s&fbclid=IwAR3B8eOgLKOPf2fqiayVWl76ov7dhDdlVXgkJriTOkvvDfuoLJVH1Cs3NpI
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
let's try again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12uxvrPAg-s
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link
RIP Jack Burns
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jack-burns-dead-muppet-movie-muppet-show-writer-was-86-1274178
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBpjgEB1dmg
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 01:41 (four years ago) link
Aw man, I totally missed this, just read it elsewhere today. RIP, huh? Yeah. Huh? Yeah. Huh? Yeah, RIP.
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
Referring to Jack Burns passing, obviously.
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:32 (four years ago) link
It's strange that he hosted SNL (solo) in the second season.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
Didn't know that. My parents watched lots of variety shows when I was a kid, but I mostly remember him from his stint replacing Don Knotts on Andy Griffith (where he wasn't too popular.)
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 23:03 (four years ago) link
a thankless job
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xknBQvt5jSI
― Misirlou Sunset (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 01:09 (one year ago) link