Posted on 02/12/2017 6:22:15 AM PST by Kaslin
The last TV show that ever took a comedic risk that I can remember is In Living Color. With skits like Homey the Clown, Men on Film, Handiman, all were very in politically correct. There’s no way that show could be run today.
How do you sink a Polish submarine?
Knock on the door.
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OR
How did Germany invade Poland without firing a shot?
They marched in backwards and everyone thought they were leaving. (YES... I do realize who cracked the code)
Saw Blazing Saddles on TCM the other evening and surprisingly it was UNCUT.
The one guy who could make me laugh till I cried was Red Skelton.
As far as I am concerned when Red died, comedy died with him.
featuring a Puerto Rican with auto insurance.
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Wasn’t that about THE Puerto Rican with auto insurance?
Also, for the most part, Puerto Ricans were described as being very lazy OR the whole family (20) having 3 jobs each...
Guess ‘they’ called that balance...
I now have a large collection of DVDs/Blurays...almost all of them from old TV shows,old documentaries (National Geographic,History Channel,etc) and movies done 20...40...60 years ago.My music collection is somewhere around 5,000 songs....99% of which are 50 to 60 years old.
IOW,I'm done with showbiz.I'll watch my videos and listen to my CDs but it's unlikely that I'll buy more than 10 videos and 10 CDs between this moment and the day I die.
Land shark...Fred Garvin,Male Prostitute....Roseane Rosanadana...News For The Hard Of Hearing...Theodoric of York,Midevil Barber....Coneheads...Bass-O-Matic...
I'm that old
Thanks for the contribution! Outstanding performances.
Hal Holbrook one man performance as Mark Twain...
Have you looked at SPOTIFY? Here’s the original “Mark Twain Tonight!” album (1959) =
https://open.spotify.com/album/0ApgaWlrpx70VvW21GP70N
Wanna bet?
Red Skelton is, and was, the funniest comic that has ever lived.
For all of you who are to young to have ever seen his routines; I pity you, you missed the only man who could make you laugh until you cried.
All the greats wanted to get a spot on his show; Hope, Crosby, Rickles, Dean Martin, Abbott & Costello, Lucille Ball, Ed Bergan, Joey Bishop, Sid Caesar, Gleason. etc,etc,etc.
Red Skelton was not only the greatest comic to ever grace this country, he was also a great American.
Don’t recall having heard of Spotify.
Thanks for the assist. It will be good to hear it once more.
Thanks for the link.
And Mel is my all-time favorite!
:-)
Me too. This was on in the kitchen of a country club restaurant when I was busing tables. The kitchen staff was rolling on the floor.
That is my favorite Kinison
I’m so old I remember when the comedy skits on Jack Paar were funny....
I remember seeing some pretty edgy comedy shows in the late 1980s. Sam Kinison, Stephen Wright and Andrew Dice Clay come to mind. I can’t imagine any of them making it today. The colleges have pretty much shut down free speech among our young people. The young people of today cannot handle anything that offends their sensibilities and they feel they need to be given “safe space” and protection from opposing viewpoints. Even viewpoints from a comedic perspective.
I’ve seen to a hundred times and I still laugh and everyone around me thinks I’m sick and they are right. LOL
Candygram...
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