Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman (1969)
A CBS television special written by Dick Van Dyke Show writers Sam Denoff and Bill Persky starring Dick and Mary.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
The Invaders with special guest star Kevin McCarthy (1967)
Poor Kevin McCarthy, always gettin' screwed over by aliens... and sometimes Weird Al.
Speeding up this Site and Preventing Freezing...
I know that some of you sometimes have trouble viewing certain pages because they may take a long time to load due to several factors. Sometimes when there are several posts in one week, it simply takes a long time to load. In other cases, non-YouTube related sharing sites (veoh.com, guba.com etc) can cause problems for one reason or another and scramble text or even cause things to freeze. The easiest thing to do if you ever have trouble loading or viewing this site due to the volume of video embedded, is click on the thing that appears at the bottom of the main page that says Subscribe to Posts (atom). This will give you an RSS feed to the site that will allow you to view each new post individually, making things faster and easier for you.
Ronald Reagan for President Commercial with Michael Landon (1979)
Michael Landon suggests you give Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign one thousand dollars because, apparently, the wealthiest corporations in America were now broke(?) from funding the campaign of the father of both modern neo-conservatism and neo-liberalism.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Friday, May 9, 2008
Norm Crosby's Comedy Shop with guest Michael Keaton (1978)
It can be a serious mistake for a comedian to accept an invitation for a television appearance before they're ready - when their material is still shaky and not fully polished. Michael Keaton makes just such a mistake with this, his first stand-up appearance on American television (he had previously performed stand-up on the Canadian CTV Network on The Alan Hamel Show). It wasn't his American television debut however - that had occurred a couple years earlier on an episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
Norm Crosby's Comedy Shop with guest Jackie Gayle (1978)
Jackie Gayle is one of the many forgotten old school Jackies of comedy history, along with Jackie Miles, Jackie Vernon and on down the line. Like those two, Gayle was a successful nightclub comedian who never truly crossed over to television fame. That might even be a noble fact, if it weren't for the fact that today we are left with little documentation of his act. Woody Allen used Gayle in his salute to the borscht belt comedians in Broadway Danny Rose.
Norm Crosby's Comedy Shop with guests Vic Tayback and Garry Shandling (1978) - Footage Offline - 10/07/09
Vic Tayback was the "mystery surprise guest" on this episode of Norm Crosby's Comedy Shop. This feature of every episode had a seventies celebrity knocking on the door of a phony living room set and making an unannounced appearance in which they would engage in terribly labored comedy banter with Norm and then introducing the next comedian. Although it isn't in this clip, Tayback introduces Shandling as a funny young writer from his sitcom Alice.
The Bob Cummings Show featuring Nancy Kulp and Peter Lawford (1958)
This show features several of the first ladies of sitcomhood: Nancy Kulp, Ann B. Davis and even Rose Marie (The Beverly Hillbillies, The Brady Bunch, The Dick Van Dyke Show).
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Person to Person with Edward R. Murrow (1958)
Tonight, Mr. Murrow interviews Hollywood couple Gene Raymond and Jeanette MacDonald.
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