Here are three different segments from the 1967 summer replacement Away We Go featuring George Carlin. Away We Go was named after Jackie Gleason's catch phrase as the program was the summer replacement for The Jackie Gleason Show. It was Carlin's first full time television job and he worked as a featured performer and staff writer. When the Gleason program returned in the fall, Carlin was set up easily to make a pair of stand-up performances.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
The Ed Sullivan Show with guest Senor Wences (1966) - Footage Offline - 09/10/10
Why is Senor Wences so funny? Who knows. Freud's book would never be able to explain it. But few acts can make me giggle non-stop.
The Hollywood Palace with host Martha Raye and guest George Carlin (1966)
Performing for a group of serviceman on their way to Vietnam.
The Mike Douglas Show with guests Gene Simmons and Totie Fields (1974)
Of all the Mike Douglas clips on YouTube, this one has traditionally been the most viewed. However, the clip has traditionally only appeared as a four minute chunk. This is new to the internets, and it is almost ten minutes.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
The Godfrey Cambridge Show: Live at the Hotel Aladdin (1968)
Godfrey Cambridge is a criminally neglected figure in stand-up history.
Listen to the whole Album - The Godfrey Cambridge Show
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
What's My Line with mystery guest Dustin Hoffman (1969)
What's My Line helps promote an X Rated movie. How bout that!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Robert Klein - Child of the 50s (1972)
Robert Klein was considered revolutionary in the seventies. He influenced countless comedians that flooded the onslaught of comedy clubs that started in the seventies and exploded in the eighties. However, Klein was a victim of his own influence. Much of this record sounds old hat now, featuring material that has since been done to death by others (shopping for condoms etc.), but Klein was the first. This record is also notable for being on the BRUT label - yes, the same people who made the cologne.Listen to the whole album - Robert Klein - Child of the 50s.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Sunday, July 13, 2008
What's My Line with mystery guest Eve Arden (1955)
Maybe the Game Show Network was being clever and running an OTR themed run of What's My Line. Then again, Eve Arden was a television star by this point, but to me, just like Herbert Marshall, she is radio star.
What's My Line with mystery guest Herbert Marshall (1954)
I don't recognize Herbert Marshall at all, mostly because I only know him from thousands of appearances on Old Time Radio, in particulary on that exciting theater of thrills, Suspense.
Treasure Hunt with host Jan Murray (1957)
I've never really understood the appeal of Jan Murray and watching this almost unbearable game show just cements the confusion. He seems like the kind of guy who was just in the right place at the right time, when networks needed a lot of bodies to fill the primitive airwaves and almost anybody with some stage experience/presence would do. I'm not sure if this episode bombed terribly or if it's just a sparsely populated studio audience, regardless I find Murray awfully obnoxious. He seemed to get slightly more bearable as he aged, but maybe that's just because he wasn't hosting his own show in the silver haired years. The best part of this thing is the Milton Delugg accordion peppered throughout the show (actually, when Murray is first introduced the music for a moment sounds strikingly similar to Delugg's opening for Broadway Open House with a man who should've been a far bigger star than Murray, one Jerry Lester).