Bob and Ray

wow, thanks Eric!

I bought this for $15 yesterday:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3135/2705359989_ae763d3556.jpg?v=0

bob and ray, both gay

bob rae?

http://images.theglobeandmail.com/archives/RTGAM/images/20060922/cover23/0922rae230.jpg

can anyone suggest where to begin with the archive link above?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmahLN6_Ozw

holy shit I have tears streaming down my face from that one

"a 99-year sweetheart contract"

These guys are unsurpassable.

lol beautiful, tho Ray does initially muff the "12 dollars" line as "12 boxes"

"We don't pry into the personal lives..."

"We don't pry into the personal lives..."

high five, this was the line that pretty much had me on the floor this morning

just remembered to upload this - Just Fancy Dan, Barber of Hartsdale. I think it's from around 1950.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/6656146682369232/

a classic, done here on Flip Wilson's show in the early '70s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_8u1VHCPZ8

NBC, 1979:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KxlCqOB0bk

AWESOME. is that from snl?

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.

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.

Imdb gives writing credit to Woody Allen's producer?

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.

is that bob and ray special on one of the snl season boxes?? it seems hella familiar...

I don't believe so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypQ2csey3MA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcsIJqhGkB4

they play assorted media stars in Cold Turkey, the only film directed by Norman Lear (screens in NYC this week)

revive for Labor Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQna34cbPpg

I have been giggling helplessly at "we don't pry into the personal lives of our employees" for nearly four decades now

Giggling helplessly at Webley Webster's crusty sea captain book review reenactments for two decades.

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.

i wonder what kinda review Simon gave their Broadway show

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

awww damn

a singular comedic talent

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.

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.

Hoped this wasn't the reason for the revive but kinda figured it would be. 92 is a good run. RIP Bob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9fwTv197KE

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV2pS1-sNzI

"Apparently you take me for a complete fool."
"Yeah, more or less."

“By the time we discovered we were introverts, it was too late to do anything about it."

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

my parents were total stans for Bob & Ray! we need Wally Ballou covering the current presidential campaign

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

From early in their career, this one gets me every time:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E5l_vuzn6e4

hey, they got a nice endorsement from the HQ dude today.

who?

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.

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.

oh yeah, i read about that a month ago

xp

JS, I think "Planet of the Baboons" might fit in there sideways