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