Post by brutalis on Jul 7, 2017 8:56:39 GMT -5
Thinking last night about how us "classic" timer's experienced such a time through television where we had great comedy and comedian's that were timeless. Growing up with television the 60's gave us exposure to the great's of yesteryear and then into the cutting edge up and comers while the 70's continued to provide the old and new. We had Sid Caesar's Show of Shows, Martin and Lewis Colgate hour, Red Skelton, Ernie Kovacs, Soupy Sales, Three Stooges, Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy and others. There were ensemble shows like Laugh-In, Hee Haw, Carol Burnett, and others. We had So many of the talk/interview shows like Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, Dinah Shore, Johnny Carson who always carried a comedian per show. Then how the British onslaught came to us through syndication and PBS with Benny Hill, Monty Python and Rowan Atkinson and others. There were the stand up comedy acts we all listened to on record, 8-track and cassette from the likes of Richard Pryor, Red Foxx, George Carlin, Cheech and Chong, Steve Martin, Robin Williams. How then the stand up act's all morphed into providing comedy television series gold over the years from Danny Thomas, Joey Bishop, Bob Newhart, Roseanne Barr, Drew Cary, Tim Allen, Bernie Mac and others. Every where there was comedy to be had.
We shared laugh time with the brightest and funniest growing up in a constant barrage every day. Those days of youth I remember sitting around laughing with my parents and grandparents watching the "safe" comedy of television. I remember junior high and high school spent buying or borrowing tapes and 8-tracks of the new guys "mature" comedy to listen to before or after school. There were long summer vacation drives spent listening to cassette tapes of stand up comedy instead of the radio. I was able to convince my mother to sit up late during my high school years to watch Benny Hill and Monty Python with me when the rest of the family was in bed asleep and she learned to appreciate new humor which she hadn't grown up with or known before. My grandfather was amazed that I enjoyed and laughed at all of the comedy he grew up with in the 40's and 50's while still turning him on to Steve Martin and Robin Williams in the 80's.
Let this be the place where we can reminisce and commensurate our love of those shows and people which helped us grow and learn and laugh our way through life. What are your remembrances?
We shared laugh time with the brightest and funniest growing up in a constant barrage every day. Those days of youth I remember sitting around laughing with my parents and grandparents watching the "safe" comedy of television. I remember junior high and high school spent buying or borrowing tapes and 8-tracks of the new guys "mature" comedy to listen to before or after school. There were long summer vacation drives spent listening to cassette tapes of stand up comedy instead of the radio. I was able to convince my mother to sit up late during my high school years to watch Benny Hill and Monty Python with me when the rest of the family was in bed asleep and she learned to appreciate new humor which she hadn't grown up with or known before. My grandfather was amazed that I enjoyed and laughed at all of the comedy he grew up with in the 40's and 50's while still turning him on to Steve Martin and Robin Williams in the 80's.
Let this be the place where we can reminisce and commensurate our love of those shows and people which helped us grow and learn and laugh our way through life. What are your remembrances?
