They can pretty much all be found on YouTube.
Some will be quite familiar to you.
Some might be rather obscure.
Why sixteen entries?
It's a rather arbitrary number.
I played around with other numbers, but none were just quite as funny.
Maybe I can be coaxed.
Anyway, by their nature, the list is in no particular order.
1) The last scene of the second "Newhart" series, when he wakes up next to Suzanne Pleshette, only to realize that everything about his second series (Larry, Darryl, and Darryl, etc.) was a dream.
2) Sid Caesar and "The Haircuts" singing "You Are So Rare To Me" and the accompanying crazy dance.
Most Caesarian's would opt for "This is Your Story", but for me, it's diminishing returns.
3) Jay Thomas making his annual appearance on "Letterman" to tell his "Lone Ranger" story.
Boy, am I going to miss that.
4) The "Gin Rummy" scene in "Born Yesterday".
5) The Stateroom Scene from "A Night At The Opera"
Aunt Minnie's Niece: Is my Aunt Minnie in here?
Groucho: No, but you can prowl around here if you wanna. You'll probably find somebody
just as good!
6) The Weenie King. The world's oldest actor in one extended hilarious scene in Preston Sturges'
"The Palm Beach Story".
7) "Harry Speak-Up". Bilko's salute to the trials and tribulations of drafting a monkey into
the Army.
8) A scene from the series "Joe and Sons" ,wherein Jerry Stiller performing a eulogy, refers to the
deceased's favorite Tuesday night parlor game, performed right after bowling. It was called---
"It Ain't Necessarily Beer"
9) "The Chef of the Future". Gleason and Carney. The first fifteen minutes are a waste of time.
Go right to the TV studio. "Oooohh, it can core a apple!!!"
10) "Who's On First?" From the 1952 filmed Comedy Series they did. Accept no substitutions.
11) Stan Daniels. Was a writer on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." They would always have him
get up during audience breaks, introduce him as one of the great actors of the Yiddish Theater.
He would sing his rendition of "Ole Man River". Check it out on YouTube.
12) The original "In-Laws". Peter Falk and Alan Arkin. The keyword is "Serpentine"
13) Jack Carson and Betty Kean in a 1950 episode of "The Four Star Revue" November, 1950.
It's in the second half hour. Three telephone booths. That's all you need to know.
14) "The $65 Funeral. Nicholas and May. As funny and as smart as it gets.
15) Bob and Ray. "The Slow Talkers of America". I'd be just as happy with "The World's Most
Beautiful Face Contest".
16) Ernie Kovacs performing "The Nairobi Trio".
17) Last and certainly not least, Jack Benny and Gisele Mackenzie's violin duet of "Getting To
Know You", where she constantly upstages him.
He was such a master of timing.
If you think I left out something on the same level, comment on this page, and I'd be happy to consider it, or berate it, depending on my mood.
I'm just here to guide you.
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My books, "Show Runner" and it's sequel, "Show Runner Two", can be found at the Amazon Kindle Store.
Along with the newer ones, "The Man Is Dead", and "Report Cards".
They are all compilations of blog entries that have since been removed from the blog.
So this is the only way you can find them.
You can search by typing in my name, Cindy Williams, Laverne and Shirley, The Odd Couple, or Happy Days.
Check them out.
You don't need a Kindle machine to download them.
Just get the free app from Kindle, and they can be downloaded to an IPhone, IPad, or Blackberry.
The paperbacks, "Mark Rothman's Essays" and my new novel, "I'm Not Garbo" are not e-books.
But they are available for people without Kindle.
I have many readings and signings lined up for those, and the thing about Kindle is you can't sign one.
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And now, we've got my reading of my "Laverne and Shirley Movie" screenplay on YouTube.
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I'll guess that your mention of "The In-Laws" means the whole movie, start to finish.
ReplyDeleteI'll sign that.
I saw "In-Laws" at least four times in its initial theatrical release. I had to.
There's one scene, early in the movie, that got the single longest and loudest laugh I've ever heard from a movie theater audience.
It's right after the shoot-out on West 53rd Street.
After Falk and Arkin take the cab back to the dentist's office.
And find ...
I'm not spoiling it for anyone who hasn't seen it.
Just know that I willingly paid three or four more admissions so I might finally hear the dialogue that the audience drowned out.
This is why "The In-Laws" was the first movie that I ever bought on home video (VHS, at that).
For laugh-out-loud moments, nothing beats the 1970's Odd Couple (and I'm not just pandering here). The one-liners on that show still kill me, even though I know them all by heart. Just a few favorites:
ReplyDeleteFelix (trying to dial the phone blindfolded): "Six! One, two, three, four, five, six." Oscar: Lookah this, I'm on Sesame Street."
Oscar (sitting in Felix's chair shaped like a hand): "I feel like an M&M." Myrna (later in the same chair): "I feel like I'm insured by Allstate."
Oscar (after eating an imaginary meal of nothing, at Dr. Burger's Fat Farm): "What's for dessert, do we get to suck on a balloon?"
Oscar (organizing a crap game in the monastery): "We're playing for I-owe-thou's."
Boy do I miss that show, and those brilliant actors -- and of course the writers!
My favorite scene from the chair episode is when Murray glances up at the crazy, abstract clock, which he's never seen before, and instantly realizes he's late for an appointment.
DeleteMy own credits aside, I've never been that big a fan of one-line jokes. People don't talk like that.
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