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Top "LOL" Moments in Classic TV Shows?
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On SNL when Dana Carvey played the Russian talk show host interviewing the grown up Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster)
The Church Lady
When William Shatner sang Color Me Badd's "I Wanna Sex You Up" on the AMA's one year with only a bongo player backing him up.
When Archie found out the "woman" he rescued was a transvestite (Beverley LaSalle) & became friends w/ Edith.
(*not so funny when Beverley was murdered though!
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The Church Lady
When William Shatner sang Color Me Badd's "I Wanna Sex You Up" on the AMA's one year with only a bongo player backing him up.
When Archie found out the "woman" he rescued was a transvestite (Beverley LaSalle) & became friends w/ Edith.
(*not so funny when Beverley was murdered though!
)nightfly61 said:When Archie found out the "woman" he rescued was a transvestite (Beverley LaSalle) & became friends w/ Edith.
(*not so funny when Beverley was murdered though!
That was longtime San Francisco female impersonator Lori Shannon who played Beverly in three AITF episodes. The last, as you mention, where he/she is murdered, and Edith loses her faith as a result, is one of the most touching episodes of the series, IMHO. Archie is uncharacteristically subdued and supportive of Edith for a change in that one. And despite his typical wisecracks and insults, it is made clear that he actually liked Beverly in spite of her unconventional (to Archie) lifestyle.
Foster Brooks did some singing on Louisville
radio before he got famous, so it wouldn't surprise
me to know he really could sing.
Foster Brooks worked at WHAM radio in Rochester early in his career. Apparently he liked the area (maybe his wife was from the area) because he maintained a summer home just south of Rochester. When he was in town he made himself available to the local media for any charitable events. He did PSA's and appeared on Jerry Lewis, Easter Seals, etc. marathons. I talked to him several times. He was a very nice guy. Just seemed like one of the guys and always up for a good joke.
One of my favorite appearances he made was playing a drunk in a bar talking to Arnold Ziffle (dressed in a pilot's costume) on Green Acres. We actually had an intellectual conversation about that!
radio before he got famous, so it wouldn't surprise
me to know he really could sing.
Foster Brooks worked at WHAM radio in Rochester early in his career. Apparently he liked the area (maybe his wife was from the area) because he maintained a summer home just south of Rochester. When he was in town he made himself available to the local media for any charitable events. He did PSA's and appeared on Jerry Lewis, Easter Seals, etc. marathons. I talked to him several times. He was a very nice guy. Just seemed like one of the guys and always up for a good joke.
One of my favorite appearances he made was playing a drunk in a bar talking to Arnold Ziffle (dressed in a pilot's costume) on Green Acres. We actually had an intellectual conversation about that!
Yes! "Y-y-ou heard the lll-lll-lootennat!"
therealjm12 said:
Since you knew him, I won't dispute your word. However, he did
sing and even acted as a newscaster on WHAS radio in Louisville;
his broadcasts of the 1937 Ohio River flood were heard on both
WHAS and Nashville's WSM. At one point (probably in the '50s)
he was seen on WHAS-TV's "T-Bar-V Ranch" and "Hayloft Hoedown."
(This is off Wikipedia, so I can't totally vouch for its accuracy. He
was from Louisville and it's not unlikely that he broke into broadcasting
there.)
I got this off the WHAM 1180 web site. http://www.wham1180.com/cc-common/gallery/display.html?album_id=8874
I think Foster Brooks worked at WHAM in the 40's (long before my time) and as the picture indicated returned to WHAM in the late 50's.
I didn't really know him. I just had brief and very pleasant conversations with him in the studio while micing him. I can tell you when came to the (TV)station I was working at there was a lot of excitement. Everybody loved the guy. When he got done taping whatever he was there for, he would walk around the station and say hello to everyone. Sometimes he would sit in "The Garden Room" -break room, have a cup of coffee and just talk to people.
I think Foster Brooks worked at WHAM in the 40's (long before my time) and as the picture indicated returned to WHAM in the late 50's.
I didn't really know him. I just had brief and very pleasant conversations with him in the studio while micing him. I can tell you when came to the (TV)station I was working at there was a lot of excitement. Everybody loved the guy. When he got done taping whatever he was there for, he would walk around the station and say hello to everyone. Sometimes he would sit in "The Garden Room" -break room, have a cup of coffee and just talk to people.
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