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The Jonathan Winters Show (1967-1969) is probably the rarest two-season variety show of the 1960s.
It was produced by the Canadian comedy writers Frank Peppiatt and John Aylesworth.
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The Jonathan Winters Show (1967-1969) is probably the rarest two-season variety show of the 1960s.
It was produced by the Canadian comedy writers Frank Peppiatt and John Aylesworth.
The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
"How frail a thing to solve the riddle of death. We're really very stupid, Lang. We live surrounded by working models of this machine and only now it occurs to us to duplicate the machinery. The heart is nothing but a pump like this; veins and arteries are only tubes like these. So what could be simpler than to use the glass pump to force the real pump into action after it has stopped?"
Lawless Breed 1946
JoAnne Worley and Alan Sues were both recruited for Laugh-In after George Schlatter saw them perform in The Mad Show at 8151 Santa Monica Blvd in Hollywood.
Dick Curtis, a comedian who worked for Jack Ruby, has died at the age of 95. Read my six-part interview with him here.
Eddy’s was a major Kansas City nightclub in the 1950s. Elderly comedian Dick Curtis told me:
“Eddy’s was an outfit joint. That was the Kansas City outfit. And you know what I mean when I say ‘outfit.’ That's what we called 'em around Chicago...
“George Eddy was the boss. They were all brothers and there were four or five of them. They were all little guys. When I first met them you would bend over to shake hands - but these were the toughest guys in Kansas...
“One night we're onstage and a guy comes in the front door with a gun. He sticks the gun in the chest of the maitre'd and he says, ‘Open the cash register. Give me all the money.’ The maitre'd was more frightened of his boss than he was of the guy with the gun! He raises his hand and he says, ‘Mr. Eddy? Gentleman to see you, sir.’ This crazy guy with the gun shouts, ‘What are you doing? Give me all the money...’
“Sam Eddy was astonished. He looks at the guy and goes, ‘You are trying to rob me? Wait, let me find my gun.’ He's digging through the drawers! ‘Where is my gun? Where is my gun?’
“The maitre'd was standing there with his hands up and the robber is still screaming, ‘Put your hands up! Put your hands up!’ The robber fired two shots! Both go through Sam's coat and miss him completely! Sam takes his gun, shoots him - and the guy falls over backwards - dead.
“Sam looked at the maitre'd and said, ‘Now get him out of here!’
"And this was during the show. It was a swell place to work, though.”
Dick Curtis hosts The New Queen For a Day (1969)