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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted July 12, 2013 01:00 PM
They were most definitely, funnier than hell! I remember well the roast of Jack Benny, where, his former co-hosts on his radio and TV shows get up and basically say, 'I was once a well adjusted person" ...
Phil Harris was a tee-totaller before Benny, for instance ...
but thanx to Benny, there are who they are today! It was hilarious!
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Paul Adsett
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From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted July 12, 2013 02:23 PM
The Dean Martin show, and the Dean Martin Roasts were all really great fun, and Dean was the ultimate Mr. Cool. In fact all the 50's and 60's TV variety shows such as Ed Sullivan, Dean Martin, Carol Burnett etc. were such great entertainment for the whole family. This kind of comedy is nowhere to be seen today on American TV. All we have are a bunch of foul mouthed, so called stand up comedians on cable TV, where every Juvenile adolescent piece of humor goes for funny. Makes you weep for the past.
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Robert Crewdson
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From: UK
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted July 12, 2013 03:31 PM
Dominique, the first partner was Cathy Gale, played by Honor Blackman. Paul, the same can be said for the UK. We had good comedians; I know the US is familiar with Benny Hill, but we had so many, now we have nothing. As a kid I loved a lot of American shows, Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Champion the Wonder Horse: they all had one thing in common, that good overcomes evil. Now children have violent computer games, and some of these have been blamed for real life murders.
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