| Major Mike | 22 Jan 2017 8:26 a.m. PST |
Where, Oh where, are you tonight…. |
| Florida Tory | 22 Jan 2017 8:29 a.m. PST |
Jackie Gleason. "And away we go!" Rick |
| The Beast Rampant | 22 Jan 2017 11:57 a.m. PST |
I probably the only person who picked both "Bennie Hill" and "Hee Haw". "Carrol Burnett" was, and is, awesome. |
| skippy0001 | 22 Jan 2017 12:38 p.m. PST |
Ernie Kovacs, WOW are we old! |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 22 Jan 2017 12:40 p.m. PST |
I'll just underline what I said in the pre-poll discussion: Ernie Kovacs--sui generis,genius who first grasped the technical potential of TV:
youtu.be/YVwkWKFGE0I
Continental Showcase--my vote will probably be the only one for this 1966 summer replacement show of clips from mostly forgotten European circus acts. BUT--also introduced some teenaged boys to Juliette Greco. That slinky dress, and smokey voice whispering love songs in French, permanently altered the mind of at least one fifteen year old,let me tell you:
youtu.be/758N_Jl_DyE |
| nazrat | 22 Jan 2017 2:06 p.m. PST |
She might have been all that but the cancer stick dangling from her mouth just makes her gross to me. |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 22 Jan 2017 2:23 p.m. PST |
Well,it was France in the 60's,after all,but point taken:
There. Better? |
| zoneofcontrol | 22 Jan 2017 3:27 p.m. PST |
Yes, was just as fashionable to be seen and photographed with a cigarette back then as it is to be heard voicing concerns about them today. |
 20thmaine  | 22 Jan 2017 5:54 p.m. PST |
Today's music sucks ? Man – what have you been smokin' ? There is so much fine music out there…one has but to go look for it…. |
| Who asked this joker | 22 Jan 2017 8:26 p.m. PST |
There is so much fine music out there…one has but to go look for it…. Amen, Brother! |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 22 Jan 2017 10:51 p.m. PST |
Well,there is a tendency to remember the past through a filter,and forget some of the variety show stuff,especially from the open shirt and white flare pants days: youtu.be/6OW1JJwqVRQ |
 piper909 | 22 Jan 2017 11:02 p.m. PST |
Many of those old comedy sketches or stand-up material doesn't hold up well today, if you watch it again, nor has time been kind to much of the music or the vaudeville acts. Yet the best of these shows contain a strange quality of exotic zaniness and unselfconscious showmanship that is missing today. Where else but Ed Sullivan could you get the Jefferson Airplane ("for you youngsters"), Frank Gorshin's impressions, a circus plate-spinner, a Broadway musical number, and Topo Gigio the Italian puppet mouse, all in one hour, and MC'ed by a walking zombie to boot? Outrageous! TV has never been so bizarre since. Thanks, Ed! You did bring the Beatles to America, after all. |
| skedaddle | 23 Jan 2017 11:41 a.m. PST |
Ah, the joys of Gene Gene the dancing machine on the Gong Show. Priceless! |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 23 Jan 2017 12:08 p.m. PST |
Don't forget the Unknown Comic! DIP (Dance In Peace),Gene. |
| piper909 | 01 Feb 2017 2:04 p.m. PST |
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demonstrates how anyone can get in on sculpting for fun...
tells something about herself.
