Lucy and Desi recreate their sitcom personas for this sketch tailored specifically for a Sullivan appearance. The TV critics of the day could not, for the life of them, figure out how Ed Sullivan could seem so casual and relaxed when he was playing himself in a sketch but be so wooden when he was himself. It's a whole lot of fun seeing Ed out of his element.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest John Denver (1974)
Now I am no John Denver fan - but I love any old footage of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson! You can wait until this video loads fully and then cut to the five minute mark for the interview if you can't stomach the music.
The Mike Douglas Show with guest Frank Zappa (1974)
This footage has been on YouTube forever, but perhaps someone out there hasn't seen it yet. It's too bad Zappa is so unresponsive in this interview, I guess he hadn't mastered his television persona yet (as a disastarous stint hosting Saturday Night Live later proved). Eventually he would make incredible arguments on television on more serious panel shows as in this oft-viewed clip on Crossfire or this debate moderated by Charlie Rose or my all-time favorite, this incongruous booking on a Joan Lunden mother's day special - part one & part two!
Monday, July 2, 2007
Sunday, July 1, 2007
On Location: Redd Foxx (1978) - Footage Offline - 09/11/10
Early on HBO wasn't granting stand-up specials to the up and comers, they were handing them out to the fully established and the old. Pat Cooper, Totie Fields, Norm Crosby, Buddy Hackett and here ... Redd Foxx.Saturday, June 30, 2007
The Irv Kupcinet Show (1977) - Footage Offline - 11/20/07
What a crazy panel! Lucille Ball, Otto Preminger, David Mamet and Elizabeth Ashley have a debate about changing morales in art and showbiz, aging actors, government and plenty more on this local Chicago television show from WWTW.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Buddy Hackett: The HBO Special (1983)
The official title for this early HBO special is Buddy Hackett Live and Uncensored. The Donnie and Marie Show with guests Buddy Hackett & Ruth Buzzi (1977)
Pretty painful. If it starts to hurt, just go back to the start and play that theme song again - it makes everything better.
Buddy Hackett might be gettin' skin cancer!
Buddy Hackett might be gettin' skin cancer!
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Buddy Hackett
Thursday, June 28, 2007
The Merv Griffin Show with guest Pat Paulsen etc.
I don't know where some of these YouTubers dig this stuff up. This is, apparently, a sketch that the hilarious Pat Paulsen of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour fame taped for The Merv Griffin Show in 1974 that, for reasons that I'm sure are obvious, never aired. So I am told.
Pat Paulsen on Late Night with David Letterman in 1982:
The men that made Paulsen famous:
Pat Paulsen on Late Night with David Letterman in 1982:
The men that made Paulsen famous:
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