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Post by laurenfrances on Mar 5, 2024 16:09:14 GMT -5
I’ll take that as a compliment… 🤓 Indeed, yummy goodness for those with discerning palate...   |
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Post by inger on Mar 5, 2024 17:56:17 GMT -5
I’ll take that as a compliment… 🤓 Indeed, yummy goodness for those with discerning palate... Also served on our pre-chewed menu for the man in a hurry!… And the pre-chewing gives the illegal aliens work in your community… |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 5, 2024 20:29:48 GMT -5
Before WPIX-TV would become a full-time station in the late 1950's, they would share NYC Educational Channel programming in the morning until 3PM. They would come on at 3PM, with Oliver and Hardy movies, then have their regular kids programming start afterwards. I love watching their movies. Also, I enjoyed watching the Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Abbott and Costello comedy films. WNEW-TV, channel 5 would show the East Side Kids movies on Saturdays. During the week they had excellent kids shows, hight lighted by Sandy Becker show. Those WC Fields movies are classics. My favorite WC Fields movie is "It's a Gift." Yep, if I remember correctly channel 5 would have a horror movie or 2 on in the AM, but in the afternoon they would show The East Side Kids/The Dead End Kids/The Bowery Boys movies. 1 of my favorite movies is "Crime School" with Humphrey Bogart and The Dead End Kids/East Side Kids/Bowery Boys. Max, I am glad that somebody else has "It's A Gift" as his favorite WC Fields movie. I think it's more consistently funny than some of his more celebrated films like "My Little Chickadee" and "The Bank Dick" (although I like them too.) Harold Bissonette! Fields worked some skits from his vaudeville days into that film -- the blind Mr. Muckle destroying his store, the "kumquats" guy Mr. Fitchmueller. Loved the happy ending with Bissonette pouring some vodka into his fresh-squeezed orange juice. In the early to mid-30s Paramount had Fields and the Marx Brothers and Mae West doing some of their best work. The Marx Brothers especially with "Duck Soup" and "Horsefeathers" and "Monkey Business" were classics IMO. They also did some good work later with MGM --"A Night At The Opera" for instance -- but I thought they were at their creative zenith earlier. At that same time Laurel and Hardy were doing their best stuff at MGM -- especially "Sons Of The Desert" and "Way Out West." A lot of great comedic cinema from that time that made its way to TV when we were growing up. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 5, 2024 20:35:10 GMT -5
SNL alumni Phil Hartman was so multitalented and could make me laugh just by being on camera. Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer. Bill Clinton Ronald Reagan Impressions Such terrific characters Hard to believe he’d be 75 now… And Troy McClure on "The Simpsons." Just a funny guy who looked like a mid-level executive. |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 5, 2024 20:37:51 GMT -5
SNL alumni Phil Hartman was so multitalented and could make me laugh just by being on camera. Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer. Bill Clinton Ronald Reagan Impressions Such terrific characters Hard to believe he’d be 75 now… And Troy McClure on "The Simpsons." Just a funny guy who looked like a mid-level executive. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 5, 2024 20:41:56 GMT -5
And Troy McClure on "The Simpsons." Just a funny guy who looked like a mid-level executive. You are quick on the draw, Kaybli. Which prompts a question -- did "Quick Draw McGraw" survive into your TV generation? |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 5, 2024 20:44:18 GMT -5
You are quick on the draw, Kaybli. Which prompts a question -- did "Quick Draw McGraw" survive into your TV generation? lol, I heard of him but never watched the show.
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Post by inger on Mar 5, 2024 21:01:12 GMT -5
And Troy McClure on "The Simpsons." Just a funny guy who looked like a mid-level executive. m I had stopped watching the Simpsons by then, but I do recall seeing one of those episodes… |
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Post by bomberhojoe on Mar 5, 2024 21:49:55 GMT -5
SNL alumni Phil Hartman was so multitalented and could make me laugh just by being on camera. Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer. Bill Clinton Ronald Reagan Impressions Such terrific characters Hard to believe he’d be 75 now… Also Frank Sinatra and Ed McMahon to Dana Carvey's Johnny Carson. |
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Mar 6, 2024 11:21:57 GMT -5
Not sure if it's been discussed but I was a big fan of the Bob Newhart shows. Both the show based in Chicago and Vermont. Really good supporting casts.
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Post by bomberhojoe on Mar 6, 2024 11:38:59 GMT -5
Not sure if it's been discussed but I was a big fan of the Bob Newhart shows. Both the show based in Chicago and Vermont. Really good supporting casts. 55, I am with you on Newhart! He was so understated, but very funny. I am just finishing up rewatching "Newhart". Hi, I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl and my other brother Darryl. |
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Post by Max on Mar 6, 2024 13:56:50 GMT -5
Those WC Fields movies are classics. My favorite WC Fields movie is "It's a Gift." Yep, if I remember correctly channel 5 would have a horror movie or 2 on in the AM, but in the afternoon they would show The East Side Kids/The Dead End Kids/The Bowery Boys movies. 1 of my favorite movies is "Crime School" with Humphrey Bogart and The Dead End Kids/East Side Kids/Bowery Boys. The Bowery is where bums resides in flophouses/saloons in the gas light era. The acrid smell of urine waffling in the air.Their presence is wiped out due to gentrification. My Dad had to drive past the Bowery when visiting relatives in Manhattan. When I was in elementary school, my mother would try and scare me and tell me that's where I would live if I didn't go to school.  
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Post by Max on Mar 6, 2024 14:03:50 GMT -5
The Bowery is where bums resides in flophouses/saloons in the gas light era. The acrid smell of urine waffling in the air. You say that like it's a bad thing...
There was also a half-way house in that area. The shopping area a few blocks away was a nice place to shop. When I was 18 years old I bought an excellent soft leather jacket there at a great price from a nice couple that owned a clothing store. It was one of the best, if not the best jacket I ever owned. |
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Post by Max on Mar 6, 2024 14:06:53 GMT -5
You say that like it's a bad thing... I know. Urine waffles have been a Sunday favorite at our house for decades…
No to the urine waffles, but I do enjoy eating waffles with ice cream. |
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Post by Max on Mar 6, 2024 14:08:43 GMT -5
You say that like it's a bad thing... The history of the Bowery is interesting and sad at the same time. Aimless vagabonds is a wretched commentary of society. For awhile there, there would also be prostitutes on the corners. |
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