Posted on 02/12/2017 6:22:15 AM PST by Kaslin
The battle boy wasn't really a dufus, he just had issues with toy soldiers and violent fantasies.
There’s a video of Bob Newhart making it’s way around Facebook where he reprises his role as a psychiatrist that is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. I love dead pan comedy and Bob is the king of that type.
Carlos Mencia skewers everyone.
I laugh myself into a coughing-jag!
Really - they were.....
To this day, I cannot hear the piece, "Swan Lake," without thinking of John Belushi dancing the ballet while wearing a white tutu. I looked for that on youtube once, but my effort was unsuccessful.
Krammer as “Battle Boy”
Absolutely Hilarious!
Has to be the one he did on "Mad TV", and it was great!
I was going to ask you if you remembered Melanie Chartoff, thinking that she had dropped off the planet since Fridays, but when I looked her up in IMDB I saw that she’s done tons of stuff.
Who could forget Melanie Chartoff? LOL!
Here’s some food for thought.
I was born in the early fifties and grew up with b&w, then color tv.
Every day at school we all talked about “the show” that we watched the night before. With only three channels we all shared the same experiences - Beatles on Ed Sullivan, etc.
We didn’t know it, but we were living in an unusual period of technology that was simple broadcast. The common experiences shaped our culture.
But we are far beyond that now. First came many more channels. Then came time shifting with recording machines. Then on demand streaming. All technologies that shifted power to the consumer (and that, by the way, upended all existing advertising models).
Now, there are few common experiences left (Superbowl comes to mind). So we live in a country with many small subcultures, bolstered by the ability to connect with anyone anywhere on the internet. Anyone can “broadcast.”
It’s no wonder that this fragmentation is having an impact on our culture. And there is literally no “going back.” We grew up in a technical transition period from broadcast to network which will never recur.
It’s a brave new world, like it or not.
Klem Kaditalhopper...
Did I spell it right?
How do you sink a Polish submarine?
Knock on the door.
Mining youtube for vintage entertainment is a hobby of mine. Currently digging into a lode of Steve Allen and a vein of Bob Newhart.
What is now called comedy is political satire. TV comedy shows are a political agenda wrapped in a laugh track.
Bass o matic. Landshark. Samarai delicatessen. The Lubeners.
“What happened to Bob Hope style humor?”
Bob Hope was very lurid in his humor off camera, he was loved by our TOUGH fighting’ troops for it.
The best news spoof comedy shows I remember were THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS back around 1964, and HBO’s NOT NECESSARILY THE NEWS from the 1980s.
SNL was trash as was Laugh In.
“Barbecue tongs, barbecue tongs, shoot the moon followed by a banana.”
Whenever my late wife or I would see an overwrought dancer, the mention of “barbecue tongs” would crack the other up. A running joke for years...
I'll tell you the impact it's had on me. It has me seeking foreign sources of entertainment. I watch KDramas, and because I'm learning Polish, I've started listening to Polish music instead of English music. So I couldn't tell you anything about today's new actors or singers.
“Do we fry it? no No No no”
“Shake and Bake it? No no no no”
“We SMOKE it! Yea Yea Yea Yea”
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