I met both Groucho Marx and Jerry Stiller. Groucho was as funny in person as he was in the movies. Jerry is a kind person - he tries to make you feel important.
Saturday mornings into the afternoon could be spent watching back to back to back Laurel and Hardy, three Stooges, and/or Abbott and Costello movies as late as the 70s and 80s. If not those, then it was Tarzan, Tarzan Tarzan. It didn't matter that they were dated/old. They were great.
I used Who's on first as a means to introduce Abbott and Costello to my boys. They loved it. Now, they appreciate that comedic team. The baseball hook helped a lot.
They didn't do movies but that TV show was a comedy group doing sketch and performance. Her, Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, Vikki Lawrence and whomever the guest that week was, were pure comedic genius.
The Carol Burnett show was hilarious. This is probably the single funniest thing I've ever seen from a TV show, not just from Tim Conway's improv and timing, but everyone else's reactions and Vicki at the end...
Maybe they don't qualify, because so much of their collaboration was in the Monty Python context. But they produced a lot of classic two-man material: mostly sketch comedy (Dead Parrot, Cheese Shop, Argument, etc.) but also on the big screen, from the Python films to their one cruelly funny scene together in A Fish Called Wanda.
For a one-time engagement, DeNiro and Grodin were fantastic together in Midnight Run.
The Argument Sketch needs to be in a HOF somewhere
Saturday mornings into the afternoon could be spent watching back to back to back Laurel and Hardy, three Stooges, and/or Abbott and Costello movies as late as the 70s and 80s. If not those, then it was Tarzan, Tarzan Tarzan. It didn't matter that they were dated/old. They were great.
Now? Nothing.
Along those .. how about The Bowery Boys/East Side Kids
jcn: Where would you rank Peter Cook and Dudley Moore? For some reason, their comedy didn't cross the ocean nearly as well. Too highbrow, maybe? Too angry? Too much social critique?
Beat me to it. I loved the Smothers Brothers. Amazing that they were banned from television for "political reasons" when they made a comment that they were against the Vietnam War. How times have changed. There's Pumas in the crevices! - ( New Window )
jcn: Where would you rank Peter Cook and Dudley Moore? For some reason, their comedy didn't cross the ocean nearly as well. Too highbrow, maybe? Too angry? Too much social critique?
I think it just didn't get promoted as well. I remember reading around the time that Moore died that Cook had a drinking problem that submarined their attempt to bring their act stateside and that there were some hard feelings as a result on Cook's side.
Shame, because they were pretty damn good too.
RE: RE: RE: The Argument Sketch needs to be in a HOF somewhere
jcn: Where would you rank Peter Cook and Dudley Moore? For some reason, their comedy didn't cross the ocean nearly as well. Too highbrow, maybe? Too angry? Too much social critique?
I think it just didn't get promoted as well. I remember reading around the time that Moore died that Cook had a drinking problem that submarined their attempt to bring their act stateside and that there were some hard feelings as a result on Cook's side.
Shame, because they were pretty damn good too.
Their skit "Audition for Tarzan with the one-legged man" was hilarious. I talked to some Brits who say that that skit is to Britain, what "Whose on First" in the U.S.
I love how they were able to get Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price and Glenn Strange to star in a comedy that sort of spoofs all of their respective movies. I love that movie.
And I think they got Claude Reins too to reprise his role as the Invisible Man in another movie.
RE: RE: I grew up watching old Abbott and Costello movies
I love how they were able to get Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price and Glenn Strange to star in a comedy that sort of spoofs all of their respective movies. I love that movie.
And I think they got Claude Reins too to reprise his role as the Invisible Man in another movie.
deserve a mention as well. Amazing talents, and "Your Show of Shows", his TV show back in the 50's was ground breaking. Sid was considered the "King" of sketch comedy, rightfully so...here's a Youtube of him and Imogene at the movies!
Just look at the list of writers for Sid on that show!
Mel Brooks
Neil Simon
Woody Allen
Carl Reiner
Larry Gelbart
Gelbart didn't write for "Your show of Shows", he wrote for that show's successor (with Sid), "Caesar's Hour". And Allen didn't write for YSOS either, just Sid's later TV stuff.
Both went on to great careers afterward.
I'll forgive Carl for "Meathead" (smile).
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Now? Nothing.
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For old-timey gut busting laughs, they are pretty good too.
But, you can't watch them today. Cosby bought the rights and refuses to allow them to be aired.
I have a box set of all of their episodes.
See the link below.
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For old-timey gut busting laughs, they are pretty good too.
But, you can't watch them today. Cosby bought the rights and refuses to allow them to be aired.
I have a box set of all of their episodes.
See the link below. Link - ( New Window )
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So long Crabby.
May not be the best in many eyes, but those guys always looked like they had a ton of fun doing what they did...
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That was good. Abbott was a great straight man, but Costello is awesome. I never saw that one before.
Lon Chaney Jr.: "You don't understand. You see when it gets dark and the moon comes out I turn into a wolf."
Lou Costello: "You and 20 million other guys."
I THINK they can still put that on television.
Anyway
Stooges (Curley only)
Rascals
Abbott & Costello
Laurel & Hardy
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Maybe they don't qualify, because so much of their collaboration was in the Monty Python context. But they produced a lot of classic two-man material: mostly sketch comedy (Dead Parrot, Cheese Shop, Argument, etc.) but also on the big screen, from the Python films to their one cruelly funny scene together in A Fish Called Wanda.
For a one-time engagement, DeNiro and Grodin were fantastic together in Midnight Run.
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Thanks. Then why the Hell aren't those films ever on? They were great.
So long Crabby.
Three episodes air every Saturday morning on MeTV.
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For old-timey gut busting laughs, they are pretty good too.
But, you can't watch them today. Cosby bought the rights and refuses to allow them to be aired.
not true. They are on METV (ch 33 in Fairfield County) every Saturday morning at 7:00. I watch every week
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for that reason alone I'd have to pick them.
Saturday mornings into the afternoon could be spent watching back to back to back Laurel and Hardy, three Stooges, and/or Abbott and Costello movies as late as the 70s and 80s. If not those, then it was Tarzan, Tarzan Tarzan. It didn't matter that they were dated/old. They were great.
Now? Nothing.
Along those .. how about The Bowery Boys/East Side Kids
jcn: Where would you rank Peter Cook and Dudley Moore? For some reason, their comedy didn't cross the ocean nearly as well. Too highbrow, maybe? Too angry? Too much social critique?
Beat me to it. I loved the Smothers Brothers. Amazing that they were banned from television for "political reasons" when they made a comment that they were against the Vietnam War. How times have changed.
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the timing on that one was just perfect.
jcn: Where would you rank Peter Cook and Dudley Moore? For some reason, their comedy didn't cross the ocean nearly as well. Too highbrow, maybe? Too angry? Too much social critique?
I think it just didn't get promoted as well. I remember reading around the time that Moore died that Cook had a drinking problem that submarined their attempt to bring their act stateside and that there were some hard feelings as a result on Cook's side.
Shame, because they were pretty damn good too.
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the timing on that one was just perfect.
jcn: Where would you rank Peter Cook and Dudley Moore? For some reason, their comedy didn't cross the ocean nearly as well. Too highbrow, maybe? Too angry? Too much social critique?
I think it just didn't get promoted as well. I remember reading around the time that Moore died that Cook had a drinking problem that submarined their attempt to bring their act stateside and that there were some hard feelings as a result on Cook's side.
Shame, because they were pretty damn good too.
Their skit "Audition for Tarzan with the one-legged man" was hilarious. I talked to some Brits who say that that skit is to Britain, what "Whose on First" in the U.S.
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In that sense, Gleason and Carney in the Honeymooners. Didn't realize they only did one season. Of course a season was 36 weeks back then.
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Andy Griffith and Don Knotts into the mix
In that sense, Gleason and Carney in the Honeymooners. Didn't realize they only did one season. Of course a season was 36 weeks back then.
Yeah good call they were great together
I love how they were able to get Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price and Glenn Strange to star in a comedy that sort of spoofs all of their respective movies. I love that movie.
And I think they got Claude Reins too to reprise his role as the Invisible Man in another movie.
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for that reason alone I'd have to pick them.
I love how they were able to get Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price and Glenn Strange to star in a comedy that sort of spoofs all of their respective movies. I love that movie.
And I think they got Claude Reins too to reprise his role as the Invisible Man in another movie.
I couldn't see Claude Reins playing that role.
I second that emotion.
Just look at the list of writers for Sid on that show!
Mel Brooks
Neil Simon
Woody Allen
Carl Reiner
Larry Gelbart
Amazing!