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joe pyne interview with anton lavey

Always enjoyed watching Joe Pyne. I'm not sure now how much of his show was scripted, but it was usually fun. Some of the ideas put forth by guests seemed outlandish then. Now - many might have support by various segments of the public. Pyne passed away in 1970 at the age of 45.
 
Not entirely on-topic, but....

Does anyone remember the number of "Joe Pyne" caricatures on episodic TV back when Pyne was in the first flush of popularity. I recall episodes of RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, IRONSIDE and THE BOLD ONES which featured Pyne-like characters, all nasty, vitriolic...and characterized as off-camera phonies. Many such episodes ended with the Pyne clone going crazy on live TV, whereupon the disgusted audience walks out, leaving him all alone.

Similarly, we had a spate of Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura parodies when those two were making national headlines on a daily basis. Once again, never sympathetically, and once again the characters were thorough phonies.

Am anxiously waiting for all the Glenn Beck lampoons who will undoubtedly pop up on various sitcoms and LAW&ORDER spinoffs....it's inevitable....
 
There was an episode of Dick Van Dyke that featured a Pyne clone. I think it's the one where it's revealed that Alan Brady wore a toupee.
 
Around 1966, it was (I believe) the comic strip, Judge Parker that featured a person named Sydney Pryor who hosted a TV show and brought out negative facts about his guests. Obviously the creator of that strip was no fan of Joe Pyne.
 
A 1968 episode of the 60s "Dragnet" ("Public Affairs - DR-07") featured Joe and Bill appearing on "Speak Your Mind", a talk show hosted by Chuck Bligh, a Joe Pyne-type talk show host who wore a judge's robe and several silver chains, playing to an audience that, at one time, booed a woman for praising the cops. The topic was "The Police: Who Needs Them?"

The episode also starred Don Sturdy as an underground newspaper publisher -- Don would go on to play Johnny Fever on "WKRP in Cincinnati" and the teacher on "Head of The Class" -- as Howard Hesseman.
 
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