Miscellaneous Stuff

[Heathbar012]

Those were my two favorite, also. The Jose Uribe's ghost ones started out funny, but got a little weird.

 

[gp956]

Those were my two favorite, also. The Jose Uribe's ghost ones started out funny, but got a little weird.

The "WHO THE FUCK IS GARY BROWN" one is pretty good too. Yeah, the Uribe thing was has to be cut way down before he gets a shot on the Carson show.

 

[calsnowskier]

The "WHO THE FUCK IS GARY BROWN" one is pretty good too. Yeah, the Uribe thing was has to be cut way down before he gets a shot on the Carson show.

Holy shit, dude...

The Neolithic age called. They want their TV references back.

 

[Heathbar012]

The "WHO THE FUCK IS GARY BROWN" one is pretty good too. Yeah, the Uribe thing was has to be cut way down before he gets a shot on the Carson show.

Agreed. The only really funny one from that "thread" was about Ernest Riles' place.

 

[tzill]

LOL

ANGRY BRUCE ‏ @AngryBochy to @PillzRgood <------actual Brett Pill twitter feed:

BAM!!! Tweet...of...the...WEEK!

Rep.

 

[gp956]

Holy shit, dude...

The Neolithic age called. They want their TV references back.

I knew you'd get it.

 

[gp956]

Listened to Tom House on the morning show (he was on to talk about his work with Zito and Alex Smith). House had this great line about baseball players and the game:

".....it's game of failure, for the most part, coached by people who see things negatively, in a mis-information environment, and these guys are supposed to go out and be superstars."

 

[SFAnthem]

New nickname on the horizon:

Here's mine for Chez3:

We have the panda....meet his younger cousin

The Koala!

 

[tzill]

Listened to Tom House on the morning show (he was on to talk about his work with Zito and Alex Smith). House had this great line about baseball players and the game:

I heard that too. Dude is pretty fucking bright.

 

[calsnowskier]

I knew you'd get it.

If you REALLY wanted to drop a nice reference, you should have used Comedy Tonight instead...

Bay Area based...

Same rough time period (late 70's to mid 80's)...

Started the careers of (among others): Robin Williams, Woopie Goldberg, Bobcat Goldthwaite, Bob Sagat (I think)

 

[gp956]

If you REALLY wanted to drop a nice reference, you should have used Comedy Tonight instead...

Bay Area based...

Same rough time period (late 70's to mid 80's)...

Started the careers of (among others): Robin Williams, Woopie Goldberg, Bobcat Goldthwaite, Bob Sagat (I think)

I vaguely remember that show.......and thanks to youtube



I remember catching bobcat on some local late night talk show, where he was "in character", and not knowing what to make of him. Hilarious.

 

[tzill]

If you REALLY wanted to drop a nice reference, you should have used Comedy Tonight instead...

Bay Area based...

Same rough time period (late 70's to mid 80's)...

Started the careers of (among others): Robin Williams, Woopie Goldberg, Bobcat Goldthwaite, Bob Sagat (I think)

Wasn't Comedy Tonight basically a follow up to Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In? IIRC, it had Peter Boyle and Madeline Kahn.

 

[calsnowskier]

Wasn't Comedy Tonight basically a follow up to Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In? IIRC, it had Peter Boyle and Madeline Kahn.

I found this on IMBD...

What was the stand up show in the time period that was on ch 9 on sunday nights? It was hosted by the KOME jockey

 

[tzill]

I found this on IMBD...

What was the stand up show in the time period that was on ch 9 on sunday nights? It was hosted by the KOME jockey

You sure that wasn't Channel 21? KOFY?

 

[calsnowskier]

You sure that wasn't Channel 21? KOFY?

ch 21? Never heard of it. Do you mean ch 20?

I remember watching it on KQED. It is possible that it was not first run, though...

 

[calsnowskier]

It looks like there was a show on KQED hosted by Alex Bennet called Comedy Tonight. I didnt think I was inventing all of this...

 

[MarcoPolo]

The "WHO THE FUCK IS GARY BROWN" one is pretty good too. Yeah, the Uribe thing was has to be cut way down before he gets a shot on the Carson show.

Last night KQED ran "American Masters : Johnny Carson", a 2 hour show. It was pretty well done. If you have a chance to watch or record it if/when it replays, do so - you won't regret it. Having been alive during his entire career on the tonight show (although I didn't start watching until the 70s) I could really appreciate the whole thing. He was more than an icon - he was the absolute best and nobody has come close since (although, IMHO, Arsenio Hall came damn close, with a completely different vibe). He not only had a dynamite monologue (and made fun of his own bad jokes), he had "the Carson Players" which was him doing skits maybe once or twice a week. Leno doesn't do that, and Letterman's bits are plain pitiful compared to what Johnny did. He was also the first guy I know of to slip in sex references and innuendos on broadcast TV. That just wasn't done in the 60s and 70s (until Johnny started doing it).

IMHO, the show skipped lightly over Johnny's fight with NBC in the late 70s. A new network exec made the mistake of criticizing Johnny publicly (when he had THE biggest audience on TV, night after night). Carson got pissed and found a loophole in his contract : his contract was open-ended, but written when he was based in NY. When he moved to CA full-time in the early 70s, the contract was never re-done. Certain contracts in CA (at least at the time) have to be renewed every 7 years if they are open-ended. He'd been living in working in CA for over 7 years and claimed he needed a new contract. The network said NO! So not only did he sick his lawyer on them, he announced his upcoming retirement on-air, and spent the next few months bringing it up, with comments like "hey, only 3 more weeks before I'm outta here". It went right down to the wire (people actually thought that he was gone because the network wasn't going to give in). At the last minute (pretty much literally - I don't remember if he was off-air for a few days or not, but it really went down to the wire) the network caved totally. His new contract gave him a HUGE salary increase, one day off every week (besides a generous vacation allowance), shortened the show to one hour insted of 90 minutes AND he owned the copyright to all future shows. The last one was HUGE : the network gave up copyright on all future tonight shows that he was hosting. Unheard of. But basically, they didn't really have a choice : Carson was THE biggest thing on TV, and bringing in (IIRC) over 10% of the network's TOTAL REVENUE with that one show.

I had a lot of fun times laughing my ass off watching Carson, but my favorite episode, bar none, was the show where Richard Pryor made his first public appearance after getting out of the hospital after setting himself on fire while freebasing cocaine. It was hilarious. Carson came out, did his monologue, and Pryor was the first guest. He comes out and they start chatting, and it was "fall off the couch" funny. At one point, Pryor admits that (OK, I don't remember the exact words, but it was something like) : "no, no, no more, I learned my lesson. I had burns on more than 50% of my body! I'm in pain, man, a huge amount of pain. No more drugs for me, man {pause} but these quaaludes that they gave me for the pain, MAN are they GREAT. I'm on two of them right now!". They talked for about 45 minutes, and then Johhnny looks up and says (surprised, questioning) : "oh, we're out of time? Well, I apologize to the two guests who are waiting off-stage, I hope they can come back tomorrow. Good night, folks!". I'd love to get a copy of that show, I've never seen it since - I don't think Carson ever allowed it to be released.

 

[MarcoPolo]

Wasn't Comedy Tonight basically a follow up to Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In? IIRC, it had Peter Boyle and Madeline Kahn.

Comedy Tonight Episodes - Comedy Tonight Episode Guides - Watch Comedy Tonight Episodes from PBS | TVGuide.com

Comedy Tonight on PBS
1981, TV Show

This began as a national showcase for San Francisco comedians and then included headliners from around the country. Among those who appeared were Whoopi Goldberg (who hosted the series in 1987), Bobcat Goldthwait, Kevin Pollak, Dana Carvey, Bob Saget, Ellen DeGeneres and Tom Kenny, the voice of `SpongeBob SquarePants.'

 

[MarcoPolo]

A quick search for "American Masters : Johnny Carson" gave me these showtimes :

Wed 5/16
12:00AM-2:00AM
WNET

12:30AM-2:30AM
WTTW

1:00AM-3:00AM
HD01


Thu 5/17
8:30PM-10:30PM
WGTV


Fri 5/18
7:00PM-9:00PM
KYNE

9:00PM-11:00PM
KQED


Sat 5/19
1:00AM-3:00AM
KRMA

3:00AM-5:00AM
KQED

7:00PM-9:00PM
WTTW


Sun 5/20
10:30AM-12:30PM
WGTV

12:00PM-2:00PM
KYNE

7:30PM-9:30PM
WNET

9:00PM-11:00PM
WGTV


Mon 5/21
1:00AM-3:00AM
HD01


Tue 5/22
12:30AM-2:30AM
WNET

 

[gp956]

How man shutouts will be pitched against the Angels this year? 40? Currently sitting at 8.