YES - a great one! Bag O' Glass ads from the bowling alley in New Jersey!
Akroyd was in his prime!
Remember this one?
"Try These On For Size, Conny Chung!"
Posted on 02/12/2017 6:22:15 AM PST by Kaslin
There have always been “blue” comedians, they just couldn’t broadcast it on the big three networks back in the day. Dirty jokes are as old as jokes themselves, just go read some ancient Roman graffiti.
Thank you.
I was certain that the clip was with John Belushi... but that was a long time ago.
Ditto that. He was a tremendous loss to Western Civilization. Sam, and Lee Atwater.
‘Lots of good SCTV shows on youtube - yeah!
But that would mean destroying all of Archie’s hilarious put-downs of Gloria and Meathead. No thanks!
I am a fan of Kathleen Madigan. Her take on day to day life is hilarious. Also the late John Pinette.
There have always been “blue” comedians, they just couldn’t broadcast it on the big three networks back in the day. Dirty jokes are as old as jokes themselves, just go read some ancient Roman graffiti.
There may have but do you remember any of them? Dirty jokes are far different from wide scale humor broadcast to the population.
Last show I went to see I left shortly after it began. So filthy I could not see the humor. Not much to laugh at today that is supposed to be humor.
Think how many careers he helped launch. Sadly Jay Leno and others never would do this. So real exposure for new talent in the mainstream is not what it was.
Drew Carey was one of the last people that went on Carson to help launch his career. He said in interviews he dreamed and dreamed to be on the show and he finally got his shot. He hoped his routine would be good enough for Johnny to call him over for a brief interview. Evidently Carson did not do this all everyone and if he did you knew you had really arrived. Well Carey achieved that and more.
Today's so called comics are just not that funny. It is either bad political jokes and/or bathroom humor, which I really hate. The political jokes are all venomous and hate filled and not funny.
I remember sharing In class TV shows!
We would write a small Skit and stand up
and share it.
Dragnet is one that sticks in my head.
“There may have but do you remember any of them?”
Sure, how about the old Redd Foxx routine - “What’s the difference between a pickpocket and a peeping tom?” .... “The pickpocket snatches watches....”
Wait a Minute...
YES - a great one! Bag O' Glass ads from the bowling alley in New Jersey!
Akroyd was in his prime!
Remember this one?
That’s one.
“Hal Holbrook do Mark Twain”
I’ve been trying to find those recordings, but I haven’t seen them since they were on vinyl.
Jonathan Winters had Carson rolling off his chair with some of the spontaneous things he would do with a prop on the Tonight Show.
He didn't have to say a word -- the laughs came with his facial expressions and perfect timing.
How we could stand to have more comedians with Jonathan Winters' talent . . .
There was another one, I think also on that same TU show, where Martin had to do a drunk test that was insane.
Nah, I missed that one!
Thing that kill comedy:
Late night talk show monologues which relate the same setrotyes, even untrue, and are misty liberal.
Donald Trumpshas yuge plan or small have. We will hear that for the next 8 Years. Letterman: Bush is stupid every nigh for 8 years (but Obama saying we have 57 states is not or when he stutters without a teleprompter). Letterman having on political guests and leading with “i don’t know anything about politics and then ranting or pontificating for 5 minutes.
Seh Meyers RE[eating eery night anti conservative fake news.
Lena Dunham supposedly popular comic actress being a radical wannabe feminist fate ass.
All politicians being political especially off stage.
Bill Cosby going from wholesome great storyteller and role model to serial rapist.
A; Franken putting a satellite dish n his head 20 times on SNL and becoming a senator.
SNL repeating the same characterizations every week and slamming the bush cabinet members and staff while continuing on Trump. The overwhelming liberal SNL weekend news which pre-supposes we all agree.
Sit coms which are noting but sexual innuendos which the husband does’t get, but the 13 year olds do.
What happened to Jim carrey?
I could go on, but this is my short list.
He was the last non PC comedian I can think of, next to Mr. Warmth
I saw a comedian tell a story once about performing at a college. He was supposed to perform at the college a few nights in a row. On the first night, one of his jokes was about going to a Chinese restaurant that only had chopsticks, no forks. After the performance, the guy who’d hired him came up to him and told him he was fired. Apparently some Chinese students had complained. When the comedian asked what he’d said that was so wrong, he was told, “You said forks are better than chopsticks.” For this, some Chinese students made a point to complain about the guy and demand he be fired!
There was a little girl comedian on America’s Got Talent last season who made fun of Trump and expressed her desire that Hillary would win the election. Howie Mandel told her, “I guess Republicans won’t vote for you.” And she did get voted off.
That was a just dumb kid, but I don’t know why comedians of all ages don’t realize that they’re cutting their audience in half. There’s a way to do political humor where both sides will laugh at it. The comedians of the past used to manage it. Today the hatred of Republicans/conservatives/men is just too strong. Celebrities, businesses, etc. seem happy to lose money just for the satisfaction of bashing those they hate.
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